Jerome Karle
Jerome Karle · Science & Medicine
X-ray Crystallography
1918, New York City, USA — 2013, Annandale, Virginia, USA
United States
Jerome Karle is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — X-ray Crystallography
Jerome Karle, born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, worked for decades at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. With Herbert Hauptman he devised 'direct methods' — mathematical techniques that extract the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms directly from X-ray diffraction data, without guesswork. These methods made it routine to determine the structures of countless molecules, from medicines to natural products, and earned them the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Source: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1985
X-ray Crystallography
Source: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1985
