William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.:
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
December 9, 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio
Claim to Fame:
Lipscomb is an American chemist who was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on boranes and his contributions to the understanding of chemical bonds. Boranes are molecules made up of boron and hydrogen. Stable boranes do not follow the standard electron pair sharing bonding scheme since they do not possess the requisite number of electrons. Lipscomb showed these compounds could share electrons across three atoms to form stable bonds.
