
Person
Herbert C. Brown
1912 – 2004 · aged 92
American chemist (1912–2004)
- Born
- 22 May 1912 · London
- Died
- 19 Dec 2004 · West Lafayette
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
Showing 106 years
- 22 May 1912BornBorn in London
- 1955AwardCentenary Prize
- 1959AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
- 1960AwardACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
- 1961AwardRemsen Award
- 1968AwardLinus Pauling Award
- 1969AwardNational Medal of Science
- 1971AwardRoger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
- 1975AwardChemical Pioneer Award
- 1978AwardElliott Cresson Medal
- 1979AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1981AwardPriestley Medal
- 1982AwardPerkin Medal
- 19 Dec 2004DiedDied in West Lafayette
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Major world events during their lifetime (1912 – 2004).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Herbert Charles Brown (22 May 1912 – 19 December 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.
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