Herbert Aaron Hauptman:
Herbert Aaron Hauptman is an American mathematician, crystallographer and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
February 14, 1917 in New York City, New York
Claim to Fame:
Hauptman was and American mathematician and crystallographer who shares the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jerome Karle for their development of the direct method determining crystal structures. They found a mathematical method to determine a crystal's molecular structure from the crystal's x-ray diffraction pattern. This would lead to a method of three dimensional x-ray crystallography.
