This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
About Henry Taube
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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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.
Canadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
Canadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)
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.
Canadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)
This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
Canadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
Canadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)