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  • Herbert A. Hauptman
  • Herbert Aaron Hauptman (born February 14, 1917) is an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He was interested in science and mathematics from an early age which he pursued at Townsend Harris High School, graduated from the City College of New York (1937) and obtained an M.A. degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1939.

    By 1955 he had received his Ph.D. in mathematics, and they had laid the foundations of the direct methods in X-ray crystallography.
    In 1970 he joined the crystallographic group of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo of which he was Research Director in 1972.

    Awards and Titles

    Belden Prize in Mathematics, City College of New York, 1936
    Scientific Research Society of America, Pure Science Award, Naval Research Laboratory, 1959
    President, Philosophical Society of Washington, 1969–1970
    President of the Association of Independent Research Institutes, 1979–1980
    Patterson Award in 1984 given by the American Crystallographic Association
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1985 (jointly with Jerome Karle)
    Honorary degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1985
    Honorary degree from CCNY in 1986
    Citizen of the Year Award, Buffalo Evening News, 1986
    Norton Medal, SUNY, 1986
    Schoellkopf Award, American Chemical Society (Western New York Chapter) 1986
    Gold Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, 1986
    Cooke Award, SUNY, 1987
    Establishment of the Eccles-Hauptman Student Award, SUNY in 1987
    Election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988
    Humanist Laureate Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union in 1988
    Honorary degree from the University of Parma, Italy in 1989
    Honorary degree from the D'Youville College, Buffalo, New York in 1989
    Honorary degree from Bar-Ilan University, Israel in 1990
    Honorary degree from Columbia University in 1990
    Honorary degree from Technical University of Lodz, Poland in 1992
    Honorary degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada in 1993
    Honorary degree from SUNY at Buffalo,Buffalo, NY 2009.

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