Dudley R. Herschbach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dudley R. Herschbach

American chemist

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1932

Place of Birth: San Jose, California, United States

Profession: physicist, mathematician, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University.
He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T.
Lee and John C.
Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes." Herschbach and Lee specifically worked with molecular beams, performing crossed molecular beam experiments that enabled a detailed molecular-level understanding of many elementary reaction processes.
Herschbach is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.