Dudley R. Herschbach

Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University.

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Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T.

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Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".

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He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T.

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Herschbach and Lee specifically worked with molecular beams, performing crossed molecular beam experiments that enabled a detailed molecular-level understanding of many elementary reaction processes.

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