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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