Franklin Arnold Davis (born April 1, 1939) is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[1][2] He is most notable for his development of sulfur-nitrogen reagents including N-sulfonyloxaziridine for oxidations and asymmetric hydroxylations and N-sulfinyl imines for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral amine derivatives.
Davis was born in Des Moines, Iowa.
There he served as George S. Sasin Professor of Chemistry until 1995, and moved across town to Temple University.
Davis has won the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2006), the John Scott Medal (2006), and the Paul G. Gassman award (2012).