William Irwin Thompson
American poet and social critic
Henry Taube
Canadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)
Henry Taube, was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.” He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Henry Taube, was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.” He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Taube also received many other major scientific awards, including the Priestley Medal in 1985 and two Guggenheim Fellowships early in his career (1949 and 1955), as well as numerous honorary doctorates. His research focused on redox reactions, transition metals and the use of isotopically labeled compounds to follow reactions. He had over 600 publications including one book, and had mentored over 200 students during his career. Taube and his wife Mary had three children; his son Karl is an anthropologist at the University of California Riverside.
5 Quotes by Henry Taube
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My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
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And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
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This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
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The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
Henry TaubeCanadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)