William Lipscomb

William N. Lipscomb Jr.
Born	William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. (1919-12-09)December 9, 1919[1] Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.[1]
Died	April 14, 2011(2011-04-14) (aged 91)[1] Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.[1]
Alma mater	University of Kentucky (BS) California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouses	Mary Adele Sargent ​ ​ (m. 1944; div. 1983)​ Jean Evans ​ (m. 1983)​
Children	4
Awards	Peter Debye Award (1973) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1976)
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear magnetic resonance Theoretical chemistry Boron chemistry Biochemistry
Institutions	University of Minnesota Harvard University
Thesis	Part 1: Electron diffraction investigations of vanadium tetrachloride, dimethylketene dimer, tetrachloroethylene, and trichloroethylene Part 2: The Crystal Structure of Methylammonium Chloride (1946)
Doctoral advisor	Linus Pauling
Doctoral students	Richard E. Dickerson Roald Hoffmann Russell M. Pitzer Thomas A. Steitz Donald Voet Don C. Wiley Irene Pepperberg Douglas C. Rees
Other notable students	Martha L. Ludwig Michael Rossmann Raymond C. Stevens

William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. (December 9, 1919 – April 14, 2011)^[2] was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.