Jack D. Dunitz

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Jack D. Dunitz
Born
Jack David Dunitz

(1923-03-29)29 March 1923
National Institute of Health
Royal Institution[1]
ThesisThe crystal and molecular structure of acetylene dicarboxylic acid dihydrate and of diacetylene dicarboxylic acid dihydrate (1946 submitted, accepted 1947)
Doctoral advisorJ. Monteath Robertson
Other academic advisorsDorothy Hodgkin
Linus Pauling
Lawrence Bragg
Doctoral studentsHans-Beat Bürgi
Other notable studentsOdile Eisenstein (postdoc)
Keith Hodgson (postdoc)
Websitewww.chab.ethz.ch/en/the-department/people/emeriti/emeriti-homepages/jack-dunitz.html

Jack David Dunitz FRS (29 March 1923 – 12 September 2021) was a British chemist and widely known chemical crystallographer. He was Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the ETH Zurich from 1957 until his official retirement in 1990. He held Visiting Professorships in the United States, Israel, Japan, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom.

In 1953 he married Barbara Steuer and had two daughters Marguerite (1955) and Julia Gabrielle (1957).[1]

Education

Born in Glasgow, Dunitz was educated at Hillhead High School and Hutchesons' Grammar School. He went on to study at the University of Glasgow where he gained his Bachelor of Science degree and Doctor of Philosophy in 1947.[2]

He held research fellowships at

Oxford University (1946–1948, 1951–1953), the California Institute of Technology (1948–1951, 1953–1954), the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD (1954–1955), and the Royal Institution, London (1956–1957).[3]

Research

Dunitz's main research direction involved the use of crystal structure analysis as tool for studying chemical problems. In his early pre-ETH period, his work included structure studies of

polymorphism,[27] and intermolecular interactions in condensed phases.[28][29] A few other publications on mathematical or theoretical topics may be of interest.[30][31][32][33][34]
Dunitz was also known for Dunitz's Rule: "Almost every scientific publication can be improved by cutting out the first sentence".

Awards and honours

Dunitz was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974.[35] Dunitz was a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1979,[36] the Academia Europaea since 1989[37] and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was also a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1979[38] and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences since 1988[39] and the American Philosophical Society since 1997.[40] He was an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1997.[41] He was an Honorary Member of the Swiss Society of Crystallography,[42] the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Swiss Chemical Society,[43] and the British Crystallographic Association.[44]

Dunitz was the recipient of the

Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research in 1989.[48]

Dunitz held honorary doctorates from the

Technion (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa) (1990), the Weizmann Institute of Science (1992) and the University of Glasgow
(1999).

Publications

Dunitz wrote more than 380 scientific papers[49] and was the author of "X-Ray Analysis and the Structure of Organic Molecules" (Cornell University Press, 1979; Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Basel, 1995), and "Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry...and Elsewhere" (with Edgar Heilbronner, Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Basel, 1993). He was Co-Editor (with J. A. Ibers) of "Perspectives in Structural Chemistry", John Wiley and Sons, Vols. 1–4 (1967– 1971) and (with H.-B. Bürgi) of the two-volume "Structure Correlation", Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1994.

Death

Dunitz died on 12 September 2021, at the age of 98 after a short illness.[50]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "DUNITZ, Prof. Jack David". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ^ Dunitz, Jack (2012). The crystal and molecular structure of acetylene dicarboxylic acid dihydrate and of diacetylene dicarboxylic acid dihydrate (PhD thesis). University of Glagow.(subscription required)
  3. ^ a b "Dunitz web page at ETH Zurich". Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  4. doi:10.1063/1.1700271
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  5. S2CID 4263761
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  6. ^ J. D. Dunitz, "Forty Years of Ferrocene", in: M. V. Kisak¸rek, ed., Organic Chemistry: Its Language and its State of the Art, Basel: Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, 1993, pp. 9–24
  7. doi:10.1016/0022-3697(57)90043-4
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  8. doi:10.1351/pac197125030495
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  9. doi:10.1107/S0567740875002427
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  10. PMID 5598211
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  11. PMID 5095215
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  12. PMID 5131791
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  13. doi:10.1021/ja00796a058
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  14. doi:10.1021/ja00401a011
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  15. doi:10.1021/ar00089a002
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  16. doi:10.1039/jr9530003740
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  17. doi:10.1002/anie.198711751
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  18. doi:10.1002/chem.19970030115
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  19. doi:10.1107/S0567740882008358
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  20. doi:10.1080/00268978700102321
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  21. doi:10.1021/j100315a002
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  22. doi:10.1002/anie.198808801
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  23. doi:10.1107/S0108768194012036
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  24. doi:10.1002/hlca.201200339
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  25. doi:10.1002/hlca.19830660113
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  26. doi:10.1002/hlca.19860690518
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  27. doi:10.1021/ar00052a005
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  28. PMID 19690742
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  29. doi:10.1021/cg401646t
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  30. ^ Dunitz, J. D.; Waser, J. (1972). "The Planarity of the Equilateral Isogonal Pentagon". Elemente der Mathematik. 27: 25–32.
  31. doi:10.1021/ja00771a018
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  32. doi:10.1039/c39720000568
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  33. S2CID 44969482
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  34. PMID 18412199
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  35. ^ "Jack Dunitz". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020.
  36. ^ "Prof. Dr. Jack David Dunitz" (in German). German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020.
  37. ^ "Jack Dunitz". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  38. ^ "J.D. Dunitz". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
  39. ^ "Jack D. Dunitz". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.
  40. ^ "Dr. Jack David Dunitz". American Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020.
  41. ^ "Jack David Dunitz". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020.
  42. ^ "SSCR webpage of the Swiss Society for Crystallography". Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  43. ^ a b "Swiss Chemical Society Homepage". Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  44. ^ "British Crystallographic Association". Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  45. ^ "Paracelsus Prize". Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  46. ^ "American Crystallographic Association Homepage". Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  47. ^ "Laureates Havinga Foundation". Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  48. ^ "Bijvoet Medal". Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  49. Microsoft Academic
  50. ^ "Jack Dunitz deceased". ETH Zürich. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2021.

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