Published “LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales” in Computer Physics Communications — cited 11,894 times.
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Herbert Charles Brown was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.
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culture · American chemist (1912–2004) · chemist · university teacher · writer · also Herbert C. Brown, Herbert Charles Brown, Herbert Brown, Herbert Brovarnik, H. C. Brown, Brown
Born 22 May 1912 · Died 19 December 2004 · Q102406
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Published “LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales” in Computer Physics Communications — cited 11,894 times.
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,106 times.
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,755 times.
Published “Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)” in Genome Biology — cited 17,961 times.
Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,016 times.
Died 2004-12-19.
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,643 times.
Published “Molecular portraits of human breast tumours” in Nature — cited 12,760 times.
Awarded honorary doctor of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (1998).
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Published “Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 12,444 times.
Awarded Oesper Award (1990).
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Published “An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties.” in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology — cited 10,679 times.
Awarded NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (1987).
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Won American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (1986).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI (1982).
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Won Perkin Medal (1982).
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Won Priestley Medal (1981).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1979).
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And the following year received his degree as Ph
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1978).
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Awarded Chemical Pioneer Award (1975).
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Awarded Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (1971).
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Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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Won National Medal of Science (1969).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Science
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Awarded Linus Pauling Award (1968).
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Awarded Remsen Award (1961).
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Awarded ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, (1960).
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Won William H. Nichols Medal (1959).
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Awarded Centenary Prize (1955).
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Worked to find stronger borohydrides and milder aluminum hydrides that would provide a spectrum of reducing agents
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Was promoted to associate professor, and the following year became a professor of inorganic chemistry at Purdue University in 1947 and joined the Beta Nu chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma there in 1960
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Began to research volatile, low molecular weight uranium compounds for the National Defense Research Committee
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Brown became the research assistant in Schlesinger's laboratory
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And held the position for four years before moving to Wayne University in Detroit as an assistant professor
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Brown married Baylen, whom he would later credit with sparking an interest in hydrides of boron that would eventually lead to the work for which he, together with Georg Wittig, would be awarded the Nobel prize in Chemist
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Left Wright and that autumn entered the University of Chicago, completing two years of studies in three quarters to earn a B
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Born 1912-05-22.
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