The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Louis P. Hammett
Title:
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Affiliation:
Columbia University
New York,New York 10027 USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
1987
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1967
Citation:
"For his joining together physical and organic chemistry, creating new concepts, and replacing intuition by rigor in our growing understanding of chemical reactivity."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 13, 1968.