Henry Taube

Who is this?

Henry Taube (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Taube also received many other major scientific awards, including the Priestley Medal in 1985 and two Guggenheim Fellowships early in his career (1949 and 1955), as well as numerous honorary doctorates. His research focused on redox reactions, transition metals and the use of isotopically labeled compounds to follow reactions. He had over 600 publications including one book, and had mentored over 200 students during his career. Taube and his wife Mary had three children; his son Karl is an anthropologist at the University of California Riverside.

Career

1. 1915
   Born
2. 1959
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
3. 1971
   Won Willard Gibbs Award
4. 1976
   Won National Medal of Science
5. 1981
   Won American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
6. 1983
   Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7. 1983
   Won NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
8. 1988
   Member of Royal Society
9. 2005
   Passed away
10. Member of Royal Society of Canada

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Neudorf
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: chemist, university teacher