Jerome Karle (1918-2013)

Awarded the Prize “for his outsting achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.”

American crystallographer. Karle was born on June 18, 1918 in New York City. He graduated from City College in New York in 1937. took his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry at the University of Michigan in 1943. After working on the Manhattan Project, he joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1944, becoming in 1967 its chief scientist. He was a Fellow of American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences the American Philosophical Society. He was a former President of the International Union of Crystallography, Chairman of the Chemistry Section of the National Academy of Sciences. Karle died on June 6, 2013 in Annandale, Virginia.