Lauri Vaska
Lauri Vaska | |
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| Born | May 7, 1925 University of Texas |
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| Fields | organometallic chemistry. |
| Institutions | Northwestern University Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (part of today's Carnegie Mellon University) Clarkson University |
Lauri Vaska (May 7, 1925 – November 15, 2015) was an Estonian-American chemist who has made noteworthy contributions to organometallic chemistry.
Vaska was born in
Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, where he remained until 1964. During that time, the Mellon Institute housed a number of future chemists, including Paul Lauterbur and R. Bruce King. Vaska moved as an associate professor to Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, where, from 1990 to his death, he was professor emeritus of chemistry.[1] His brother Vootele Vaska is a philosopher. He died in Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 2015, aged 90.[1][2]
Research
Vaska published ca. eighty journal articles on the
.Recognition
Among his awards are the Boris Pregel Award for Research in Chemical Physics (New York Academy of Sciences) in 1971[5][6] and election in 1981 as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "pioneering work in transition metal organometallic chemistry and synthetic oxygen carriers".
References
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