1955 Seaborg Award: Henry Taube

Taube completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Taube’s group carried out studies on photochemical reactions in solution and were among the earliest users of isotopes in the elucidation of reaction mechanisms. Of particular importance was his use of oxygen-18 to establish that oxidation-reduction reactions could occur by oxygen-atom transfer.

Taube would be awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.

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