Henry Taube Quotes

Henry Taube — Canadian Scientist born on November 30, 1915, died on November 16, 2005

Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc., FRSC was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University... (wikipedia)

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.