Dudley R. Herschbach | |
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 Herschbach in 2012 | |
| Born | Dudley Robert Herschbach June 18, 1932 San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BS, MS) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Molecular dynamics |
| 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 |
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".[1] 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.