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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 150,660 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Dudley R. Herschbach is the 296th most popular chemist (up from 345th in 2019), the 2,123rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,938th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 296 out of 509Before her are Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Rudolph A. Marcus, Leopold Gmelin, Martin Lowry, Aaron Klug, and Ben Feringa. After her are Edward Frankland, M. Stanley Whittingham, Smithson Tennant, Antoine Baumé, Carl Reichenbach, and Akira Yoshino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 111Before her are Nikolai Kardashev, Alan Bean, Christy Brown, Paul Virilio, Delphine Seyrig, and Abdul Halim Khaddam. After her are Amrish Puri, Charly Gaul, Spyros Kyprianou, Manuel Puig, Harry Gregg, and Meir Kahane.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 2,123 out of 18,182Before her are Saul Bass (1920), Jane Jacobs (1916), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Michael Emerson (1954), Paul Revere (1735), and Roberta Flack (1937). After her are Sojourner Truth (1797), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Jerome Robbins (1918), David Strathairn (1949), George Gallup (1901), and Marc Anthony (1968).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 59Before her are Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Martin Rodbell (1925), Richard Smalley (1943), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), and Alexander Shulgin (1925). After her are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Alice Ball (1892), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Frances Arnold (1956), and Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889).