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Jerome Karle
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Jerome Karle was an American chemist, university teacher, and crystallographer born in New York City in 1918. He worked in the field of physical chemistry and was employed by the University of Chicago. His professional affiliations included membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society. He participated in the Manhattan Project.
Karle received his education at the City College of New York, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, earning a Doctor of Philosophy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was married to Isabella Karle and had a doctoral student named Herbert A. Hauptman. He died of liver cancer in Annandale in 2013.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1985
“for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerome
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Annandale
- Spouse
- Isabella Karle
- Occupation
- crystallographer
- Employer
- University of Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral student
- Herbert A. Hauptman
- Field of work
- physical chemistry
- Image
- Jerome Karle Portrait.jpg
- Residence
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Jerome Karle
- date of birth
- 1918-06-18
- date of death
- 2013-06-06
- member of
- American Physical Society
- Erdős number
- 4
- cause of death
- liver cancer
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- physical chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.
Early life and education
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