Herbert A. Hauptman

Herbert A. Hauptman
Hauptman in 2009
Born
Herbert Aaron Hauptman

(1917-02-14)February 14, 1917
DiedOctober 23, 2011(2011-10-23) (aged 94)
Alma materCity College of New York (BS)
Columbia University (MA)
University of Maryland, College Park (PhD)
Spouse
Edith Citrynell
(m. 1940)
Children2
AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (1985) (jointly with Jerome Karle)
UNSW Dirac Medal (1991)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsHauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
University at Buffalo

Herbert Aaron Hauptman (February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011)[2] was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate.[3] He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. Today, Hauptman's direct methods, which he continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It was the application of this mathematical method to a wide variety of chemical structures that led the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to name Hauptman and Jerome Karle recipients of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  1. ^ Grimes, William (October 24, 2011). "Herbert A. Hauptman, Nobel Laureate, Dies at 94". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Giacovazzo, Carmelo (2011). "Herbert Hauptman (1917–2011)". Nature. 479 (7373): 300. Bibcode:2011Natur.479..300G. doi:10.1038/479300a. PMID 22094683.
  3. ^ Dr. Herbert Hauptman, Nobel Prize winner, is dead at 94