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Dudley R. Herschbach

1932 - Today

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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". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dudley R. Herschbach is the 265th most popular chemist (down from 257th in 2019), the 1,631st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,609th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 265 out of 602. Before her are Vladimir Markovnikov, Stephanie Kwolek, John Polanyi, Fritz Strassmann, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, and Martin Rodbell. After her are Edwin G. Krebs, Emil Erlenmeyer, Fraser Stoddart, Franz Karl Achard, Elias James Corey, and Georg Brandt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 85. Before her are Sonny Liston, Tony Brooks, Rainer Weiss, Gyula Horn, Harriet Andersson, and Francis Arinze. After her are Jean-Jacques Sempé, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Lalo Schifrin, K. C. Jones, Gerald Carr, and Muhammad Khan Junejo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 1,631 out of 20,380. Before her are Martin Rodbell (1925), Tony Martin (1913), David Caruso (1956), Kelly McGillis (1957), Robert Fogel (1926), and Dick Fosbury (1947). After her are Bessie Smith (1894), Maria Mitchell (1818), Jean Webster (1876), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Barry Levinson (1942), and W. Edwards Deming (1900).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 63. Before her are Kary Mullis (1944), Richard Smalley (1943), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), and Martin Rodbell (1925). After her are Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Elias James Corey (1928), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Thomas Cech (1947), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), and Roderick MacKinnon (1956).

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