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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dudley R. Herschbach has received more than 160,236 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Dudley R. Herschbach is the 257th most popular chemist (up from 296th in 2019), the 1,609th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,121st in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 257 out of 602. Before her are Bernard Courtois, Walter Gilbert, Andreas Libavius, Michael Polanyi, Kikunae Ikeda, and Arieh Warshel. After her are Emil Abderhalden, Michael Smith, Feodor Lynen, Richard Smalley, Edward W. Morley, and Kaoru Ishikawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 96. Before her are Quino, Khaled al-Asaad, Walter Gilbert, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nikolai Kardashev, and Manmohan Singh. After her are Michael Smith, Delphine Seyrig, Oleg Protopopov, Wojciech Kilar, Ingemar Johansson, and Joe Zawinul.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 1,609 out of 20,380. Before her are Karen Grassle (1942), Barbara Hershey (1948), Edgar Mitchell (1930), Bill Haley (1925), James McKeen Cattell (1860), and Robert B. Laughlin (1950). After her are John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Joseph Nye (1937), Frank Drake (1930), Sidney Bechet (1897), and Cliff Robertson (1923).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 54. Before her are Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Elias James Corey (1928), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), and Walter Gilbert (1932). After her are Richard Smalley (1943), Edward W. Morley (1838), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Martin Rodbell (1925), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), and Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889).

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