Lipscomb, William N.
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Name (Hebrew)
ליפסקומב, ויליאם נון
Name (Latin)
Lipscomb, William N.
Date of birth
1919-12-09
Date of death
2011-04-14
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Authors
Chemists
College administrators
College teachers
Nobel Prize winners
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992:page 559 ("William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.", physical chemist, moved as a child to Lexington, Ky. where his father was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky. Attended University of Kentucky 1937-1941 and in 1946 received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Joined the chemistry department at the University of Minnesota 1946-1959, then at Harvard 1959-1990, including three years as chairman. Won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1976 for his work with the element boron. Wrote "The Boron Hydrides".)
- Structures and mechanisms, 2002:CIP pref. (William N. Lipscomb)
- LC database, Mar. 6, 2002(hdg.: Lipscomb, William N.)
- Structures and mechanisms, c2002:cover (William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.)
- New York times WWW site, Apr. 18, 2011(in obituary published Apr. 15: William N. Lipscomb, Jr.; b. William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr., Dec. 9, 1919, Cleveland; d. Thursday [Apr. 14, 2011], Cambridge, Mass., aged 91; Harvard chemistry professor who won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his research on the structure of molecules and on chemical bonding)