Jerome Karle
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Jerome Karle was an American physical chemist who lived from 1918 to 2013 and made important contributions to chemistry during the 20th century. His work advanced the field of physical chemistry, which studies the physical properties of molecules and atoms.
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- 1918-06-18
- Died
- 2013-06-06
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- The Elements of Statistical Learning
· 2009 · cited 22,106x
- Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.
· 2001 · cited 20,430x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
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Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.
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1918 births2013 deathsAbraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn) alumniAmerican crystallographersAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican physical chemistsChemists from New York (state)City College of New York alumniFellows of the American Physical SocietyHarvard University alumniJewish American scientistsJewish chemists