Post by Jaga on Oct 22, 2017 19:33:28 GMT -7
Today Washington Post had an article commemorating Isabella L. Karle, - Isabella Helen Lugoski was born in Detroit on Dec. 2, 1921.
In her youth, the future Dr. Karle drew inspiration, her daughter said, from a female high school chemistry teacher and from a biography of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who, like Dr. Karle’s parents, was born in what is now Poland.
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www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/isabella-l-karle-chemist-who-helped-reveal-structure-of-molecules-dies-at-95/2017/10/20/c778f268-b4ee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-obit%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.2a9d6ebb2a81
Jerome Karle shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry with the mathematician Herbert A. Hauptman, also a colleague at the NRL, honoring “their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.” Isabella L. Karle, a crystallographer, received the National Medal of Science in 1995, bestowed by President Bill Clinton, among other major honors in her field.
The Karles worked side by side at the NRL’s Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, accumulating a combined 127 years of federal service. “I do the physical applications, he works with the theoretical,” she once told The Washington Post. “It makes a good team. Science requires both types.”
Before the prize-winning work that the Karles pursued with Hauptman in the 1950s, scientists could discern molecular structure only through the time-consuming and painstaking process of X-ray crystallography, in which X-rays were reflected off a molecule and their patterns then examined.
The Karles, shown here in 1998, worked side by side for decades at the Naval Research Laboratory. (Larry Morris/The Washington Post)
The Karles’ “direct method” permitted scientists to use mathematics to discover molecular structure via a less circuitous route, saving time and gaining precision.
she looks like one of my Polish aunts:
In her youth, the future Dr. Karle drew inspiration, her daughter said, from a female high school chemistry teacher and from a biography of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who, like Dr. Karle’s parents, was born in what is now Poland.
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www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/isabella-l-karle-chemist-who-helped-reveal-structure-of-molecules-dies-at-95/2017/10/20/c778f268-b4ee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-obit%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.2a9d6ebb2a81
Jerome Karle shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry with the mathematician Herbert A. Hauptman, also a colleague at the NRL, honoring “their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.” Isabella L. Karle, a crystallographer, received the National Medal of Science in 1995, bestowed by President Bill Clinton, among other major honors in her field.
The Karles worked side by side at the NRL’s Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, accumulating a combined 127 years of federal service. “I do the physical applications, he works with the theoretical,” she once told The Washington Post. “It makes a good team. Science requires both types.”
Before the prize-winning work that the Karles pursued with Hauptman in the 1950s, scientists could discern molecular structure only through the time-consuming and painstaking process of X-ray crystallography, in which X-rays were reflected off a molecule and their patterns then examined.
The Karles, shown here in 1998, worked side by side for decades at the Naval Research Laboratory. (Larry Morris/The Washington Post)
The Karles’ “direct method” permitted scientists to use mathematics to discover molecular structure via a less circuitous route, saving time and gaining precision.
she looks like one of my Polish aunts: