The 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henry Taube has been selected to the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry his pioneering work on the mechanisms inorganic oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions. Taube was born in , Saskatchewan, on 30 November 1915, and he received B.S. (1935) M.S. (1937) degrees at the University Saskatoon. He moved to Berkeley do his doctoral research (Ph.D., 1940) W. C. Bray, and he became a U.S. in 1941. He has held academic at Cornell (1941 to 1946), (1946 to 1961), and Stanford (since 1962) and is now the Marguerite Wilbur Professor of Chemistry at .