Herbert Aaron Hauptman

Herbert Aaron Hauptman (born on February 14th 1917), is an American mathematician, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry with Jerome Karle for their remarkable achievements in the development of direct methods of determination of the crystalline structures.

Herbert Hauptman developed a mathematical method which revolutionized the field of chemistry and opened a new way of research in the determination of the molecular structures of crystallized materials. Currently its methods, which were improved, are usually used to elucidate complex structures.

Biography

Herbert Aaron Hauptman was born with New York. It was interested as of its more young age by sciences and in particular mathematics. In 1937, it accepted a Bachelor off science City College off New York. In 1939, it obtained a master in mathematics with the Université Columbia.

After the second world war, it started to collaborate with Jerome Karle in the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and jointly worked to obtain its doctorate with the Université of Maryland. The combination of this knowledge in the fields of mathematics and physical chemistry enabled them to attack in a frontal way the problem of phase in the Diffractométrie of x-rays. In 1953, their monograph, " Solution off the Phase Problem I. The Centrosymmetric Crystal" , contained the principal ideas, among which most important was the introduction of statistical methods.

In 1970, it joined off the group of Cristallographie of the Medical Foundation Buffalo of which he was the scientific director in 1972.

Herbert Hauptman is the president of the medical organization Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute . He is professor in the department of sciences biophysics like in the department of computer sciences of the Université in Buffalo, the university of the State of New York.

Distinctions and rewards

  • Belden Prize in mathematics, City College off New York, 1936

  • Scientific Research Society off America, Pure Science Award , Naval Research Laboratory, 1959
  • Patterson Award (American Crystallographic Association) in 1984
  • Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1985
  • Humanist Prize winner Award of the International Humanist and Ethical Union in 1988

  • President of the Philosophical Society off Washington of 1969 to 1970

  • President of the Association off Independent Research Institutes , of 1979 to 1980
  • Member of the National Academy off Sciences, 1988.

Sources

External bonds

  • Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of chemistry 1985
  • Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel
  • CV of Dr. Hauptman

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