Jerome Karle
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Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist.
In 1985, Herbert A. Hauptman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering methods.
Early life and education
Karle was born in New York City on June 18, 1918, the son of Sadie Helen (Kun) and Louis Karfunkle. He was born into a Jewish family with a keen interest in the arts. He had played piano as a youth and had participated in a number of competitions, but science was much more interested. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn and would later work with Arthur Kornberg (awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959) and Paul Berg (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980) as graduates of the school to win Nobel Prizes. Karle, as a youth, loved handball, ice skating, touch football, and swimming in the nearby Atlantic Ocean.
He began training at the age of 15 and earned his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1937, where he took additional science, chemistry, and math in addition to the required curriculum. He received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1938, majoring in biology.
Karle worked at the New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York, where he created a method to measure dissolved fluoride levels, which would later be used to determine water fluoridation standards.
He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1940 and met Isabella Lugoski, who was sitting at an adjoining desk during his first course in physical chemistry. In 1942, the two were married. Both children were mentored in their PhD research by physical chemist Lawrence Brockway. Despite the fact that Karle finished his studies in 1943, he was awarded his PhD the following year.
Jerome Karle, a former president of both the American Crystallographic Association (1972) and the IUCr (1981-1984), as well as a co-recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on direct methods, was a Jerome Karle. Among the numerous other awards he has received for his work, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976, the American Academy of Achievement in 1986, and the American Philosophical Society in 1990.