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Darleane C. Hoffman was a chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a year and then joined her husband at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory where—after an extensive delay where she was denied access to the laboratory because the human resources department refused to believe that a woman could be a chemist [7] —she began as a staff member in 1953.
Darleane C. Hoffman – professor (now emerita) UC Berkeley since 1984; [133] 1997 National Medal of Science "for her discovery of primordial plutonium in nature and the symmetric spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei; for pioneering studies of elements 104, 105, and 106, and for her outstanding service to education of students in nuclear ...
Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University.He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". [1]
Enrico Fermi Award. The Enrico Fermi Award is a scientific award conferred by the President of the United States.It is awarded to honor scientists of international stature for their lifetime achievement in the development, use or production of energy.
Edwin Niblock Lightfoot, Jr. (September 25, 1925 – October 2, 2017) [1] was an American chemical engineer and Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the department of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Roberts in 1967. Roberts received both a B.A. (1941) and Ph.D. (1944) from the University of California, Los Angeles, working under Professor William Gould Young. [2] He held several positions at the California Institute of Technology, including division chairman of chemistry and chemical engineering from 1963 to 1968, dean of the faculty and provost from 1980 to 1983 and Institute Professor ...
Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity."
1926 – Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist; 1927 – L. K. Advani, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India; 1927 – Chris Connor, American singer (d. 2009) 1927 – Ken Dodd, English singer and comedian (d. 2018)