Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D , M.Sc , B.Sc , FRSC (November 30, 1915–November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the first Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize.

Taube attended the University of Saskatchewan, receiving his B.Sc in 1935 and his M.Sc in 1937. While at the University of Saskatchewan, Taube studied with Gerhard Herzberg, who would be awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
He moved to University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his Ph.D studies in 1940. His Ph.D mentor was William Bray.
From Berkeley, he served as an instructor and assistant professor at Cornell University until 1946.
He served as chair of the chemistry department in Chicago from 1956–59, but did not enjoy administrative work.
He became a Professor Emeritus at Stanford in 1986, but he continued to perform research until 2001.