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Henry Taube

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Canadian-born American chemist (1915-2005)

United StatesScientistsLived 1915 to 2005 · aged 89
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" 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.

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1991Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
1988Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1986Oesper Award
1985Priestley Medal
1983Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1983NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
1983Welch Award in Chemistry
1981American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
1980Linus Pauling Award
1979Centenary Prize
1976National Medal of Science
1975Remsen Award
1971Willard Gibbs Award
1971William H. Nichols Medal
1965Golden Plate Award
1955Guggenheim Fellowship
1955Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
1949Guggenheim Fellowship
National Order of Scientific Merit
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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Henry Taube 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.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1915 to 2005 · aged 89
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