Jack D. Dunitz

Jack D. Dunitz
Born
Jack David Dunitz

(1923-03-29)29 March 1923[1]
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Died12 September 2021(2021-09-12) (aged 98)
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Known forBürgi–Dunitz angle
SpouseBarbara Steuer[1]
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1974)
Gregori Aminoff Prize (1990)
Scientific career
InstitutionsETH Zurich
University of Glasgow
University of Oxford
California Institute of Technology
US 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]

  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)

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