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Jerome Karle
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Jerome Karle (1918–2013) was an American chemist, crystallographer, and university teacher. Born in New York City, he held a Doctor of Philosophy degree and worked in the field of physical chemistry. He was employed by the University of Chicago and served as a doctoral supervisor to Herbert A. Hauptman. Karle participated in the Manhattan Project and was recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society. Karle received his education from the City College of New York, the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Harvard University. He resided in New York City and died in Annandale from liver cancer.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1893-07-30
- Active to
- 1972-05-07
Discography
- ’Tis an Irish Girl I Love / Sing! Sing! Birds on the Wing
- Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming / I Hear a Thrush at Eve
- Lass o’ Killean / I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
- Mother Machree / Come Back to Erin
- Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Seen / Hard Trials
- Then You'll Remember Me / Love's Garden of Roses
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling / Minstrel Boy
- Little Mother of Mine / I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby1919
- Bring Back the Golden Days / When You and I Were Young, Maggie1920
- Christ in Flanders / The Lord Is My Light1920
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Elements of Statistical Learning
· 2009 · cited 23,209x
- Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.
· 2001 · cited 21,736x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent
· 2010 · cited 14,373x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,182x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1985
“for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerome
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Annandale
- Spouse
- Isabella Karle
- Occupation
- crystallographer
- Employer
- University of Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral student
- Herbert A. Hauptman
- Field of work
- physical chemistry
- Image
- Jerome Karle Portrait.jpg
- Residence
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Jerome Karle
- date of birth
- 1918-06-18
- date of death
- 2013-06-06
- member of
- American Physical Society
- Erdős number
- 4
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- physical chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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