molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
One of the pioneers of quantum chemistry. Born 1920 in Bielefeld, Germany, to Otto Ruedenberg and Meta Wertheimer (of the Wertheimer textile family). Parents (hy""d) gassed in Poland 1942: Klaus escaped to Switzerland 1939 after getting a scholarship. Emigrated to US after the war, first to U. of Chicago then to Iowa State University. Many of the most distinguished people in the field are former Ph.D. students of Ruedenberg.
biochemist
chemist & industrialist
chemist
Carbon 14
theoretical chemist
physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)
1961 Chemistry Nobel Prize for mechanism of CO2 assimilation in plants (Calvin cycle. American.
physical chemistry,
industrial chemist, Nobel Prize (1905) (Jewish mother)
industrial chemist
chemist
chemical pathologist father of Prof. James Neuberger, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger Friedrich Paneth (Encyclopaedia Judaica 13:54)
chemist 1928 (Encyclopaedia Judaica 4:1298, 12:241)
electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)
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