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Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques .
Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS (born April 18, 1940) is an American biochemist.He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. [2]
The following is a list of notable deaths in 1985. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Chemistry "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements." [7] 1947 Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984) Gerty Theresa Radnitz-Cori (1896–1957) Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen." (awarded together with Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay) [8] 1974 and 1982
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.
Isabella (seated center) and Jerome Karle (left foreground) at their 2009 retirement ceremony. She was born as Isabella Helen Lugoski in Detroit, Michigan, on December 2, 1921, the daughter of immigrants from Poland. [1] She attended the local public schools; while at school, a female chemistry teacher led her to her pursuit of the field as a ...
At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. [5] Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They would later receive a medal and ...
John Bennett Fenn (June 15, 1917 – December 10, 2010) was an American professor of analytical chemistry who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. He shared half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectrometry. The other half of went to Kurt Wüthrich.