H. I. Schlesinger
H. I. Schlesinger · Science & Medicine
Inorganic chemist known for boron hydrides and borohydrides
1882, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States — 1960, Chicago, Illinois, United States
United States
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Schlesinger was an American inorganic chemist at the University of Chicago who, with his student Herbert C. Brown, developed the chemistry of the boron hydrides and discovered sodium borohydride, a versatile reducing agent of enormous importance in industry and laboratories. His wartime work supported hydride production for the Manhattan Project. He was born into a Jewish family in Minnesota.
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Inorganic chemist known for boron hydrides and borohydrides
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