Person in history
Jerome Karle
Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (born 1918)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2013 · June 6
Their story
Who they were
Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (born 1918)
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Jerome Karle appears on our June 6 calendar for 2013 as a death entry.
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June 6 2013.
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