Henry Taube
Chemist, Academic
1915 – 2005
Who was Henry Taube?
Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc., FRSC was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the first Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize. Taube completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Taube also received many other major scientific awards, including the Priestley Medal in 1985 and two Guggenheim Fellowships early in his career, as well as numerous honorary doctorates. His research focused on redox reactions, transition metals and the use of isotopically labeled compounds to follow reactions. He had over 600 publications including one book, and had mentored over 200 students during his career. Taube and his wife Mary had three children, his son Karl is an anthropologist at the University of California Riverside.
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- Born
- Nov 30, 1915
Neudorf - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Chemistry
( - 1940) - University of Saskatchewan
- Luther College
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- Cornell University
- Lived in
- Saskatchewan
- Canada
- Palo Alto
( - 2005/11/16)
- Died
- Nov 16, 2005
Palo Alto
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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