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Herbert A. Hauptman

1917 - 2011

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Herbert Aaron Hauptman (February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011) was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert A. Hauptman is the 86th most popular mathematician (up from 125th in 2019), the 557th most popular biography from United States (up from 912th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Mathematician.

Herbert A. Hauptman is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. In particular, he is known for his work in algebraic geometry and the development of the theory of algebraic curves.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Herbert A. Hauptman ranks 86 out of 1,004. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot, Thābit ibn Qurra, Zhang Heng, Alfred North Whitehead, Bonaventura Cavalieri, and Simon Stevin. After him are Alexander Grothendieck, John Couch Adams, Thomas Harriot, Stefan Banach, Christian Goldbach, and Jim Simons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Herbert A. Hauptman ranks 18. Before him are Christian de Duve, Ella Fitzgerald, Marsha Hunt, John Kendrew, Dean Martin, and Eric Hobsbawm. After him are I. M. Pei, Robert Mitchum, Ernest Borgnine, Joan Clarke, John Cornforth, and Robert Burns Woodward. Among people deceased in 2011, Herbert A. Hauptman ranks 21. Before him are Svetlana Alliluyeva, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Simon van der Meer, Rudolf Mössbauer, Ágota Kristóf, and Joe Frazier. After him are Jack LaLanne, William Lipscomb, Annie Girardot, Flórián Albert, John McCarthy, and Ramiz Alia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert A. Hauptman ranks 557 out of 20,380. Before him are Frances Cleveland (1864), Ted Kaczynski (1942), Philip Roth (1933), Steve Wozniak (1950), Pontiac (1714), and Dick Cheney (1941). After him are Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Jesse James (1847), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Dan Brown (1964), and Shirley Temple (1928).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Herbert A. Hauptman ranks 5. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Norbert Wiener (1894), and Katherine Johnson (1918). After him are Jim Simons (1938), Claude Shannon (1916), Paul Cohen (1934), John Tate (1925), Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), and Alonzo Church (1903).

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