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Dr. Henry Taube, BSc’35, MSc’37, LLD’73 (d. 2005)

Dr. Henry Taube received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1983 for, as the Nobel citation reads, his studies of the mechanisms of election transfer reactions particularly of metal complexes. A prolific researcher, Dr. Taubes work dominated his field of study and resulted in the penning of two books and more than 200 research articles. The only graduate from the U of S to win a Nobel prize, his scientific contributions are far reaching. As he himself said, 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.