found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 13, 2015(Richard Heck, who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating a reaction that has been widely hailed for its prolific usefulness in many areas of modern life, such as drug development, electronic display screens and DNA sequencing, died Oct. 10 [2015] in the Philippines; he was 84; Dr. Heck's death in Manila was reported by the University of Delaware, where he was a professor emeritus; the reaction pioneered by Dr. Heck is known as the Heck reaction; it is a palladium-catalyzed carbon cross-coupling reaction; Richard Fred Heck was born in Springfield, Mass., on Aug. 15, 1931; chemistry became his major at the University of California at Los Angeles, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1954; after postdoctoral research, he began working at Hercules Powder in Wilmington, Del.; he left Hercules (now Ashland) in 1971 to go to the University of Delaware in Newark Del.)