Henry Taube
Henry Taube
Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc., FRSCwas a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been 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 Masters degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 November 1915
CountryCanada
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.