Dudley R. Herschbach

Dudley R. Herschbach
Herschbach in 2012
Born
Dudley Robert Herschbach

(1932-06-18) June 18, 1932 (age 92)
Alma materStanford University (BS, MS)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Known forMolecular dynamics
AwardsACS 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
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Freiburg University
Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisorEdgar Bright Wilson
Doctoral studentsRichard 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.

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