The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985
Awarded on: 1985-10-16
"for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures"
Affiliations:
- US Naval Research Laboratory – Washington, D.C., USA
Jerome Karle
Born: 1918-06-18 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Biography
Jerome Karle was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.