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Henry Taube

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Henry Taube (November 30, 1915 to November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist, born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan, who died in Palo Alto, California. He won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for working out the mechanisms by which electrons transfer between metal ions in solution, showing that many such reactions proceed through a temporary bridging ligand connecting the two metal centers. Taube carried out this research chiefly at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, and his mechanistic framework became central to the study of inorganic reaction chemistry and, later, to understanding electron transfer in biological systems.

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Birth Year
1915 1
Death Date
2005-11-16 1
Death Year
2005 1
Death Place
Palo Alto, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
Neudorf, Canada 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
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1. Henry Taube (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2005-11-16T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +2005-11-16T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): Palo Alto, United States
    Q47265
  • P19 (place of birth): Neudorf, Canada
    Q2201244
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Henry Taube (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Chemistry, Lead sentence
    Henry Taube (November 30, 1915, November 16, 2005) 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,
  • Member Of: Royal Society, Article text
    He was also awarded an honorary fellowship in the Royal Society of Chemistry (1989) and the Indian Chemical Society (1989) and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1988. Taube received honorary
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Article text
    Taube was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1959. In 1961, he was elected to th
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