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Dudley R. Herschbach
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American chemist
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Dudley R. Herschbach is an American chemist, physicist, and mathematician born in San Jose in 1932. He received his education at Harvard University and Stanford University, where Edgar Bright Wilson served as his doctoral advisor. His academic career included positions at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Texas A&M University.
Herschbach’s field of work is chemistry, and he has authored works including *Dimensional Scaling in Chemical Physics* and *Chemical kinetics*. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Philosophical Society. His doctoral students have included Anita Goel and Richard Zare.
He has received several honors, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, and the National Medal of Science.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Dimensional Scaling in Chemical Physics
- Dimensional scaling in chemical physics
- Chemical kinetics
- Molecular Collisions Chem Physics
- Molecular Symmetry Struct Spectra
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0
· 2007 · cited 23,332x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,608x
- Standardized Myocardial Segmentation and Nomenclature for Tomographic Imaging of the Heart
· 2002 · cited 5,441x
- Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber
· 2006 · cited 3,882x
- Daily High-Resolution-Blended Analyses for Sea Surface Temperature
· 2007 · cited 3,712x
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Key facts
- Born
- Dudley Robert Herschbach , ( 1932-06-18 ) June 18, 1932 (age 93) , San Jose, California , U.S.
- Education
- Stanford University ( BS , MS ), Harvard University ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- Molecular dynamics
- Relatives
- Erica Jarrell-Searcy (granddaughter)
- Awards
- ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1965) , Linus Pauling Medal (1978) , RSC Michael Polanyi Medal (1981) , Irving Langmuir Award (1983) , Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) , National Medal of Science (1991) , American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2011)
- Fields
- Chemistry
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley , Harvard University , Freiburg University , Texas A&M University
- Doctoral advisor
- Edgar Bright Wilson
- Doctoral students
- Richard N. Zare , Seong Keun Kim , Timothy Clark Germann
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1986
“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”
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Encyclopedic overview
Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) 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 understanding of many elementary reaction processes. Herschbach is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Early life and education
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