| Henry Taube  Born: 30-Nov-1915
Birthplace: Neudorf, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died: 16-Nov-2005
Location of death: Stanford, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mechanisms of electron transfer American chemist Henry Taube won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1983, for his studies of oxidation-reduction or "redox" reactions, wherein electrons are gained or lost during a chemical reaction. In 1952 he showed the correlation between the rates of chemical substitution of carbon in organic reactions and the electronic structure of certain chemical complexes. In 1966 he discovered that some molecules build a "chemical bridge" prior to the transfer of electrons between molecules in chemical reactions. He later demonstrated how the electron transfer process in metals is affected by the structure of the chemical bridge. Father: Samuel Taube (farmer)
Mother: Albertina Tiledetzski (farmer)
Wife: Mary Alice Wesche Taube (two daughters, two sons)
Son: Heinrich Taube (music professor)
Daughter: Linda Taube (mohair retailer)
Son: Karl Andreas Taube (anthropologist, b. 14-Sep-1957)
Daughter: Marianna Taube (teacher, b. 1950, d. 1998)
High School: Luther College, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (1931)
University: BS, University of Saskatchewan (1935)
University: MS Photochemistry, University of Saskatchewan (1937)
University: PhD Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1940)
Lecturer: Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1940-41)
Teacher: Chemistry, Cornell University (1941-46)
Teacher: Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chicago (1946-52)
Professor: Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chicago (1952-61)
Professor: Chemistry, Stanford University (1962-86)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1949
ACS Award for Nuclear Applications in Chemistry 1955
Guggenheim Fellowship 1955
ACS Harrison Howe Award 1960
ACS Charles Frederick Chandler Medal 1964
ACS John Gamble Kirkwood Medal 1966
ACS Award for Distinguished Service 1967
ACS Willard Gibbs Medal 1971
ACS William H. Nichols Medal 1971
National Medal of Science 1977
ACS Theodore William Richards Medal 1980
ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry 1981
ACS Linus Pauling Medal 1981
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences 1983
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1983
Priestley Medal 1985
ACS Ralph and Helen Oesper Award 1986
ACS Gennady Michael Kosolapoff Award 1990
Hercules Scientific Consultant
Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico Corresponding Member
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Chemical Society
American Philosophical Society
Australian Academy of Science Foreign Member
Brazilian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Canadian Society for Chemistry
Engineering Society of Japan Foreign Member
Finnish Academy of Science and Arts Foreign Member
Indian Chemical Society Foreign Member
Los Alamos National Laboratory Consultant
National Academy of Sciences 1959
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Foreign Member
Royal Society Foreign Member
Royal Society of Chemistry Foreign Member
World Association of International Studies
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Canadian Ancestry
German Ancestry
Russian Ancestry
Ukrainian Ancestry
Naturalized US Citizen 1942
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