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Henry Taube

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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.


— Henry Taube


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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.


— Henry Taube


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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.


— Henry Taube


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The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.


— Henry Taube


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This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.


— Henry Taube


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Taube's win was the first for an inorganic chemist since 1913 (Alfred Werner) breaking a long string of awards to organic chemists. He used isotopically labeled oxygen-18 and radioactive chlorine to study these reactions. His students have had faculty positions at many prestigious universities including Cornell Rutgers Georgetown and Georgia Tech.

" He was the first Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize. Taube and his wife Mary had three children his son Karl is an anthropologist at the University of California Riverside. After finishing graduate school Taube worked at Cornell University the University of Chicago and Stanford University.

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