Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)
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Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician who lived from 1917 to 2011 and made important contributions to his field. His work has had lasting significance in mathematics, though specific details about his most famous achievements would require additional sources to describe accurately.
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- Born
- 1917
- Died
- 2011-00-00
- Works
- 5
Top works
- 101+ Great Ideas for Introducing Key Concepts in Mathematics
- 101 Great Ideas for Introducing Key Concepts in Mathematics
- 101+ great ideas for introducing key concepts in mathematics
- Crystal structure determination
- On the Beauty of Science
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- Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)
· 2008 · cited 11,292x
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Herbert Aaron Hauptman (February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011) was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. Today, Hauptman's direct methods, which he continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It was the application of this mathematical method to a wide variety of chemical structures that led the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to name Hauptman and Jerome Karle recipients of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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1917 births2011 deaths20th-century American mathematicians21st-century American mathematiciansAmerican AtheistsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of German-Jewish descentAmerican physical chemistsCity College of New York alumniColumbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumniFellows of the American Physical SocietyJewish American atheists