William Lipscomb

Also known as William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.

Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist

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William Lipscomb was an American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on chemical bonding in molecules, particularly in unusual compounds called boranes. His work advanced scientific understanding of how atoms bond together in complex molecules, which has applications in chemistry and materials science.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1976
“for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: William
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Cleveland
Place of death: Cambridge
Occupation: university teacher
Educated at: University of Kentucky
Employer: University of Minnesota
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
Doctoral advisor: Linus Pauling
Student of: Linus Pauling
Field of work: biochemistry
Image: William n lipscomb jr.jpg

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name in native language: William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
Commons category: William Lipscomb
date of birth: 1919-12-09
date of death: 2011-04-11
cause of death: pneumonia
member of: American Physical Society
manner of death: natural causes
student: Roald Hoffmann

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Encyclopedic overview

William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. (December 9, 1919 – April 14, 2011) was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.

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