William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.
1919-
American physical chemist who determined the structures of compounds containing boron and hydrogen, called boranes, using x-ray crystallographic and electron diffractio...
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William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. worked in several of the subdivisions of chemistry in his career, but was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his studies of chemical bonding in boron compounds , ...
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Lipscomb was born on December 9, 1919, to William and Edna (Porter) Lipscomb. He grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, after his family had moved there from Cleveland, Ohio, when he was a year old. He gradu...
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William Nunn Lipscomb Jr
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.