William Lipscomb

William Lipscomb was born on December 9, 1919, in Cleveland, United States, , and held American citizenship . He was a chemist by profession and studied at the University of Kentucky and the California Institute of Technology . Lipscomb's doctoral advisor was Linus Pauling . He died on April 14, 2011, in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

Lipscomb had several notable doctoral students, including Roald Hoffmann , Thomas A. Steitz , Donald Voet , and Richard E. Dickerson . In 1976, Lipscomb was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .