Brown, Herbert Charles

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Brown, Herbert Charles, 1912-In memory of H. L. Meerwein. (Topics in current chemistry v. 80) Bibliography p. Includes index. 1. Chemistry-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Meerwein, Hans, 1879- I. Meerwein, Hans, 1879-11. Olah, George Andrew. 1927- joint author. III. Hogeveen, Heppie, 1952- joint author. IV. Title. V. Series. OD1.F58 vol. 80... 

Brown, Herbert Charles (1912-2004) American chemist whose work on boron compoimds in the synthesis of organic molecules won him the 1979 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Georg Wittig. 

Herbert Charles Brown (1912-20D4) was born in London to Ukrainian parents and brought to the United States in 1914. Brown received his PhD. in 1938 from the University of Chicago, taught at Chicago and at Wayne State University, and then became professor of chemistry at Purdue University. The author of more than 1000 scientific papers, he received the 1979 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on organoboranes. 

Herbert Charles Brown was born in London in 1921 and was brought to the United States by his parents at age two. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has been a professor of chemistry at Purdue University since 1947. For his studies on boron-containing organic compounds, he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in chemistry with G. Wittig. 

Herbert Charles Brown (1912) Brown obtained his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Chicago (1936) and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1938. He later became a Professor of Chemistry at Wayne State and Purdue Universities. 

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