William Lipscomb
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William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. 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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Lipscombite: Mineral, small green crystals on quartz, Harvard Museum of Natural History, gift of W. N. Lipscomb Jr., 1996
Roald Hoffmann
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Roald Hoffmann is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical
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…theories for complex molecules are developed from more exact calculations for simpler but chemically related molecules,..." Subsequent Nobel Prize winner Roald Hoffmann was a doctoral student in Lipscomb's laboratory. Under Lipscomb's direction the Extended Hückel method of molecular orbital calculation was developed…
Hoffmann in 2025
Hoffmann in 2009
Roald Hoffmann with the AIC Gold Medal