William Klemperer

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American chemist (1927-2017)

United States ScientistsLived 1927 to 2017 · aged 90

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William Aloys Klemperer (October 6, 1927 - November 5, 2017) was an American chemist, chemical physicist and molecular spectroscopist.

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2001E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy

1995Faraday Lectureship Prize

1994Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry

1992Remsen Award

1983Earle K. Plyler Prize

1980Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics

1978John Price Wetherill Medal

1968Bourke Award

1954Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Richard ZareAlso won Earle K. Plyler Prize Heinz GerischerAlso won Bourke Award Ad BaxAlso won E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy

Joseph O. HirschfelderAlso won Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry

David BuckinghamAlso won Faraday Lectureship Prize

Peter DervanAlso won Remsen Award

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William Aloys Klemperer (October 6, 1927 - November 5, 2017) was an American chemist, chemical physicist and molecular spectroscopist. Klemperer is most widely known for introducing molecular beam methods into chemical physics research, greatly increasing the understanding of nonbonding interactions between atoms and molecules through development of the microwave spectroscopy of van der Waals molecules formed in supersonic expansions, pioneering astrochemistry, including developing the first gas phase chemical models of cold molecular clouds that predicted an abundance of the molecular HCO+ ion that was later confirmed by radio astronomy.

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