"Robert Burns Woodward" ba kalma ba ce a cikin ƙamus, amma sunan mutum. Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) masanin sinadarai ne na Amurka wanda ya ci lambar yabo ta Nobel a Chemistry a 1965 saboda aikinsa kan hada hadadden kwayoyin halitta. Nasarorin da ya samu a fannin ilmin sinadarai sun hada da hada kayayyakin halitta da dama, irin su cholesterol, cortisone, da chlorophyll, da kuma bayyana tsarin muhimman kwayoyin halitta kamar bitamin B12. An kuma san shi da haɓaka sabbin fasahohin roba da kuma gudummawar da yake bayarwa a fannin binciken spectroscopy.