Philip Eaton

Eaton and his fellow researchers were the first to synthesize the "impossible" cubane molecule in 1964.

[1][2] Working with Mao-Xi Zhang he is reported as having been the first to make octanitrocubane (their paper was published in the year 2003).

Upon graduating from Harvard Eaton accepted an assistant professorship position at the University of California, Berkeley.

[3][4] After arriving at University of Chicago Eaton began his research which he is now most well known for, cubane synthesis.

In 1964 Eaton and Thomas W. Cole Jr. synthesized the "impossible" cubane molecule.