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Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. Today, Hauptman's direct methods, which he continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It…
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science · American mathematician (1917–2011) · mathematician · chemist · university teacher · crystallographer · philosopher · also Herbert A. Hauptman, Herbert Aaron Hauptman, Herbert Aaron Hauptmann, Hauptman
Born 14 February 1917 · Died 23 October 2011 · Q107422
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2006· 1 entry
The American Humanist Association awarded him the Isaac Asimov Science Award
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2003· 1 entry
As an atheist and secular humanist, he was one of 22 Nobel laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Łódź University of Technology (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from Columbia University (1990).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Parma (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Won Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal (1986).
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Maryland (1985).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985).
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1970· 2 entries
Joined the crystallographic group of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo of which he was research director in 1972
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Hauptman joined the crystallographic group of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (formerly the Medical Foundation of Buffalo) of which he became research director in 1972
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1955· 1 entry
In mathematics with a dissertation in the number theory classification
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-02-14.
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