A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Alexandre, João (Dapin)

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Upbeat, guitar-strumming scientist and surfer from Palm Desert, California; awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987. Cram was born (1919) in rural Vermont, and attended college in Florida and Nebraska before earning a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Harvard in 1947. He shared the 1987 Nobel with two colleagues for pioneering work in host-guest chemistry, a branch of organic chemistry that manipulates how molecules are bound together. "An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments," Cram later said, in typical self-deprecating style. "By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted."

Cram learned to surf in 1958 at the age of 40, and embraced his late entry into the sport, telling 

 in 1996 that "learning to surf didn't hurt my pride so much as it hurt my arms."

Cram taught at UCLA for forty years, and entertained students by singing folk songs in class as spring semester came to a close and summer approached. Cram spent most weekends at San Onofre, and was a longtime member of the San Onofre Surfing Club.

In 1993, he won the National Medal of Science.

In 1998 he was named as one of the 75 most important chemists of the previous 75 years by the American Chemical Society, and in 1993 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. Cram died of cancer in 2001, at age 82.

Cram, Donald

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