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William Lipscomb

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William Lipscomb

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Also known as William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.

Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist

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William Lipscomb was an American male musician associated with acoustic Texas blues, blues, and Texas blues. He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Chemistry collection. His musical career included five works.

The name William Lipscomb is also associated with an author who lived from 1754 to 1832. This individual wrote three works, including *Poems and translations [by W.L.]* and *Beneficial effects of inoculation*.

A separate William Lipscomb, born on December 9, 1919, and died in April 2011, was a recipient of one Nobel Prize. This individual is referenced by 287 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1754
Died
1832
Works
3

Top works

  • Poems and translations [by W.L.]
  • Beneficial effects of inoculation
  • Poems. By the Rev. William Lipscomb, A.M. ... To which are added translations of select Italian sonnets, from the collection of P. Nicandro Jasseus and others

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1895-04-09
Active to
1976-01-30
acoustic texas bluesbluestexas blues

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 62,994x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,848x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,579x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,950x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,686x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1976

    for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding

~20 min read

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.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Lipscomb” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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