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Jerome Karle

Jerome KarleBorn: 18-Jun-1918
Birthplace: New York City

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: X-Ray diffraction studies

Father: Louis Karfunkle
Mother: Sadie Helen Kun
Wife: Isabella Lugoski (m. 1942, three daughters)
Daughter: Louise (b. 1946)
Daughter: Jean (b. 1950)
Daughter: Madeleine (b. 1955)

    High School: Abraham Lincoln High School, Bronx, NY (1934)
    University: City College of New York (1937)
    University: MA Biology, Harvard University (1938)
    University: PhD, University of Michigan (1944)
    Professor: University of Maryland (taught on and off)

    Manhattan Project 1943-44
    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1985 (with Herbert A. Hauptman)
    American Physical Society
    Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
    National Academy of Sciences
    National Research Council Chairman (1973-75)


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