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Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". Herschbach and Lee specifically worked with molecular beams, performing crossed molecular beam experiments that enabled a detailed molecular-level understandin…
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Born 18 June 1932 · Q243196
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2011).
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Won American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Chaired Harvard College's influential Committee on Undergraduate Education
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2003· 1 entry
Was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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1991· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1991).
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Won Polanyi Medal (1981).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Linus Pauling Award (1978).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Centenary Prize (1976).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Bourke Award (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Herschbach returned to Harvard University as a professor of chemistry
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1959· 1 entry
Herschbach joined the University of California at Berkeley, where he was appointed an assistant professor of chemistry and became an associate professor in 1961
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1958· 1 entry
Under the direction of Edgar Bright Wilson
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-06-18.
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