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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Chemistry (180) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1980s (97) 1986 (11) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1930s (112) 1932 (12) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) United States (268) Western states (27) California (16) San Jose (1) 18. Living Winners 18. Living Winners Alive (292) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) D (34) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name E-K (239) H (72) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 55 (29) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Chemists and Materials Scientists (111) Chemists (111) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University North America (309) United States (303) Northeastern states (122) Massachusetts (62) Harvard University (38) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, central (165) Germany (154) Göttingen (44) University of Göttingen (44) Short-term academic staff (17) North America (529) United States (521) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Harvard (159) Alumni (77) Long-term academic staff (53) Short-term academic staff (75) Southwestern states (38) Texas (26) College Station (8) Texas A&M University (8) Long-term academic staff (5) Western states (262) California (253) Stanford (83) Stanford University (83) Alumni (13) University of California (159) Berkeley (107) University of California, Berkeley (107) Long-term academic staff (40) Short-term academic staff (51) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Philosophical Society (126) American Physical Society (113) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) complete name: Dudley Herschbach nobel prize: chemistry award year: 1986 together with: John Polanyi together with: Yuan T. Lee prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986 was awarded jointly to Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Dudley family name: Herschbach occupation: physicist occupation: mathematician occupation: chemist field of work: chemistry work location: Harvard University, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States of America description: Dudley Herschbach 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. Herschbach is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1986/summary/> date birth: 1932 usual name: Dudley Herschbach
