Henry Taube - Nobel Laureate
Dr. Henry Taube
Dr. Henry Taube received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1983. His Nobel Citation reads "for his studies of the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions particularly of metal complexes". It was said that his work "dominated the development of his subject both theoretically and experimentally, making 18 major discoveries."
Dr. Taube was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan and received his B.Sc. (1935) and his M.Sc. (1937) from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1940 he completed his Ph.D. at the University of California (Berkeley).
In his acceptance speech, Dr. Taube said, "But the benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical. Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture and is in itself ennobling. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill."