Author:
Hargittai Balazs,Hargittai Istvan
Abstract
AbstractKurt Mislow (1923–2017) and his family were refugees from Nazi Germany. He studied at Tulane University and at Caltech and spent most of his career at Princeton University as Hugh Stott Taylor Professor of Chemistry (from 1988, Emeritus). He excelled in his research and his pedagogy of stereochemistry, introduced the term “chirality” into the chemical textbook literature, and delineated some of the theoretical underpinning of modern stereochemistry. He showed that shape, form, and symmetry play a central role in organic chemistry. He authored an introductory text on stereochemistry that has served generations. His pupils and those who learned from him through his publications carry on his legacy.
Funder
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics
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