| Dudley R. Herschbach  AKA Dudley Robert Herschbach
Born: 18-Jun-1932
Birthplace: San Jose, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Crossed molecular beam experiments American chemist Dudley R. Herschbach was first drawn to science by reading National Geographic as a child, and studied under E. Bright Wilson at Harvard, where he spent most of his academic career. Herschbach has been at the forefront of a new field of science, molecular stereodynamics, the measurement and theoretical analysis of vector properties of reaction dynamics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1986, for developing the "crossed molecular beam technique" in which molecular beams are brought together at extreme speeds for facilitate improved studies of chemical reactions. He has also experimented with catalytic supersonic expansion reactions, dimensional scaling, molecule orientation in collision stereodynamics, and slowing and trapping molecules, and played himself in a 2003 episode of The Simpsons. Father: Robert Herschbach (rabbit breeder)
Mother: Dorothy Beer Herschbach (homemaker)
Wife: Georgene Botyos Herschbach (chemist, m. 1964, two daughters)
Daughter: Lisa Herschbach (chemist)
Daughter: Brenda Herschbach Jarrell (attorney)
High School: Campbell High School, Campbell, CA (1950)
University: BS Mathematics, Stanford University (1954)
University: MS Chemistry, Stanford University (1955)
University: MA Physics, Harvard University (1956)
University: PhD Chemical Physics, Harvard University (1958)
Fellow: Harvard University (1957-59)
Teacher: Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1959-63)
Professor: Chemistry, Harvard University (1963-76)
Professor: Baird Professor of Science, Harvard University (1976-2003)
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry 1965
Guggenheim Fellowship 1968
ACS Linus Pauling Medal 1978
RSC Michael Polanyi Medal 1981
APS Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics 1983
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986 (with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi)
National Medal of Science 1991
ASCR Jaroslav Heyrovsky Medal 1992
Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award 1993
ACS Gennady Michael Kosolapoff Award 1994
AICE William H. Walker Award 1994
Council of Scientific Society President's Award 1999
Aerodyne Corporation Scientific Advisor
Exxon Faculty Fellow
Journal of Physical Chemistry Editorial Board
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1964
Council for a Livable World
Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
Harvard Society of Fellows Junior Fellow (1957-59)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
National Academy of Sciences 1967
Science Debate 2008
English Ancestry Paternal
French Ancestry Maternal
German Ancestry Maternal and Paternal
Irish Ancestry Paternal
Jewish Ancestry
Dutch Ancestry Maternal
Official Website:
http://www.chem.harvard.edu/herschbach/dudley.php
Author of books:
Dimensional Scaling in Chemical Physics (1993, physics; with John Avery and Osvaldo Goscinski)
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