| LC control no. | n 2002018711 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lipscomb, William N. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Lexington (Ky.) Pasadena (Calif.) Minneapolis (Minn.) Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1919-12-09 |
| Death date | 2011-04-11 |
| Place of birth | Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | University of Kentucky California Institute of Technology University of Minnesota Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers College administrators Chemists Authors Nobel Prize winners |
| Found in | Structures and mechanisms, 2002: CIP pref. (William N. Lipscomb) LC database, Mar. 6, 2002 (hdg.: Lipscomb, William N.) Structures and mechanisms, c2002: cover (William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.) New York times WWW site, Apr. 18, 2011 (in obituary published Apr. 15: William N. Lipscomb, Jr.; b. William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr., Dec. 9, 1919, Cleveland; d. Thursday [Apr. 14, 2011], Cambridge, Mass., aged 91; Harvard chemistry professor who won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his research on the structure of molecules and on chemical bonding) Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992: page 559 ("William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.", physical chemist, moved as a child to Lexington, Ky. where his father was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky. Attended University of Kentucky 1937-1941 and in 1946 received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Joined the chemistry department at the University of Minnesota 1946-1959, then at Harvard 1959-1990, including three years as chairman. Won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1976 for his work with the element boron. Wrote "The Boron Hydrides".) |
| Associated language | eng |
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