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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.

 

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