Frank Henry Westheimer was an American chemist. He was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard University, and the Westheimer medal is named in his honour. He was born on January 15, 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932 and earned his doctorate in chemistry from Harvard in 1935. He was a member of President Lyndon Johnson's science advisory committee from 1967 to 1970. Westheimer graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932 and went on to earn his PhD at Harvard University in 1935. He entered Columbia University as a National Research Fellow, and shortly afterwards he accepted a position at the University of Chicago. From 1967 to 1970, he was a member of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee and chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee for the Survey of Chemistry, which was concerned with gaining federal support for the chemical sciences. He received the National Medal Of Science in 1986. He died on April 14, 2007 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.