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  • 1995 - US President's National Medal of Science "For the development and applicatiom of a method for determining essentially equal-atom crystal and molecular structures by x-ray analysis, thereby having a profound effect on the practice of organic and biological chemistry.", Awarded by President Clinton at a White House ceremony on October 18, 1995.
  • 1995 - NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (US) For her development of a method for determining essentially equal-atom crystal and molecular structures by X-ray analysis, thereby profoundly affecting the practice of chemistry.
  • 1988 - Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences For her eminent crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products.
  • 1978 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1976 - Garvan–Olin Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)

Overview

Isabella L. Karle was a scientist affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. Their work primarily focused on methods for determining crystal and molecular structures by X-ray analysis, contributing to the fields of organic and biological chemistry.

Throughout their career, they received several notable awards, reflecting their contributions to chemistry and crystallography. These awards include:

  • US President's National Medal of Science (1995) - Awarded "for the development and application of a method for determining essentially equal-atom crystal and molecular structures by X-ray analysis, thereby having a profound effect on the practice of organic and biological chemistry," presented by President Clinton at a White House ceremony on October 18, 1995.
  • NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (US) (1995) - For the development of a method that profoundly affected the practice of chemistry through X-ray structural determination.
  • Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1988) - For crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products.
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1978).
  • Garvan-Olin Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS) (1976).

Isabella L. Karle's contributions had a significant impact on the practice of organic and biological chemistry through advancements in X-ray crystallography. The methods they developed allowed for the determination of molecular structures composed of essentially equal atoms, which has been influential in various chemical analyses.

Best Publications

  • Structural characteristics of .alpha.-helical peptide molecules containing Aib residues

    Isabella L. Karle;Padmanabhan Balaram

  • β-Peptide Foldamers: Robust Helix Formation in a New Family of β-Amino Acid Oligomers

    Daniel H. Appella;Laurie A. Christianson;Isabella L. Karle;and Douglas R. Powell

  • The symbolic addition procedure for phase determination for centrosymmetric and non‐centrosymmetric crystals

    Unknown

  • Synthesis and Characterization of trans-2-Aminocyclohexanecarboxylic Acid Oligomers: An Unnatural Helical Secondary Structure and Implications for β-Peptide Tertiary Structure

    Daniel H. Appella;Laurie A. Christianson;Isabella L. Karle;and Douglas R. Powell

  • A designed beta-hairpin peptide in crystals

    Isabella L Karle;Satish K Awasthi;Padmanabhan Balaram

  • Internal Motion and Molecular Structure Studies by Electron Diffraction

    Isabella Lugoski Karle;Jerome Karle

  • pi. Complexation in ion pair bonding. Structure of benzyllithium triethylenediamine

    S. P. Patterman;Isabella L. Karle;G. D. Stucky

  • Histrionicotoxins: Roentgen-Ray Analysis of the Novel Allenic and Acetylenic Spiroalkaloids Isolated from a Colombian Frog, Dendrobates histrionicus

    John W. Daly;Isabella Karle;Charles W. Myers;Takashi Tokuyama

  • Aromatic−Aromatic Interactions in Crystal Structures of Helical Peptide Scaffolds Containing Projecting Phenylalanine Residues

    Subrayashastry Aravinda;Narayanaswamy Shamala;Chittaranjan Das;Arumugam Sriranjini

  • Gephyrotoxins, Histrionicotoxins and Pumiliotoxins from the Neotropical Frog Dendrobates histrionicus†

    J. W. Daly;B. Witkop;T. Tokuyama;T. Nishikawa

  • Conformation of a 16-residue zervamicin IIA analog peptide containing three different structural features: 3(10)-helix, alpha-helix, and beta-bend ribbon.

    Isabella L Karle;Judith Flippen-Anderson;Muppalla Sukumar;Padmanabhan Balaram

  • Crystal structure of [Leu1]zervamicin, a membrane ion-channel peptide: implications for gating mechanisms.

    Isabella L Karle;Judith L Flippen-Anderson;Sanjay Agarwalla;Padmanabhan Balaram

  • ω-Amino Acids in Peptide Design. Crystal Structures and Solution Conformations of Peptide Helices Containing a β-Alanyl-γ-Aminobutyryl Segment

    IL Karle;Animesh Pramanik;Arindam Banerjee;Surajit Bhattacharjya

  • Conformation of the cyclic tetrapeptide dihydrochlamydocin. Iabu-L-Phe-D-Pro-LX, and experimental values for 3 1 intramolecular hydrogen bonds by X-ray diffraction†

    Judith L. Flippen;Isabella L. Karle

  • An application of a new phase determination procedure to the structure of cyclo(hexaglycyl)demihydrate

    Unknown

  • A new class of indolizidine alkaloids from the poison frog, Dendrobates tricolor. X-ray analysis of 8-hydroxy-8-methyl-6-(2'-methylhexylidene)-1-azabicyclo[4.3.0]nonane

    J. W. Daly;T. Tokuyama;T. Fujiwara;R. J. Highet

  • Crystal structure and conformation of cyclo-(glycylprolylglycyl-D-alanylprolyl) containing 4 .fwdarw. 1 and 3 .fwdarw. 1 intramolecular hydrogen bonds

    Isabella L. Karle

  • The Structures of Biphenyl, o-Terphenyl and Tetraphenylene1

    Isabella Lugoski Karle;L. O. Brockway

  • A Persistent Preference for Layer Motifs in Self-Assemblies of Squarates and Hydrogen Squarates by Hydrogen Bonding [X−H···O; X = N, O, or C]: A Crystallographic Study of Five Organic Salts

    Isabella L. Karle;Darshan Ranganathan;V. Haridas

  • Crystal structure of a versatile organic clathrate. 4-p-Hydroxyphenyl-2,2,4-trimethylchroman (Dianin's compound)

    J. L. Flippen;Jerome Karle;Isabella L. Karle

  • [Leu5]enkephalin: four cocrystallizing conformers with extended backbones that form an antiparallel β-sheet

    I.L. Karle;J. Karle;D. Mastropaolo;A. Camerman

  • Crystal structure of the visual chromophores, 11-cis and all-trans retinal.

    R. Gilardi;I. L. Karle;J. Karle;W. Sperling

  • An application of the symbolic addition method to the structure of l‐arginine dihydrate

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Padmanabhan Balaram
Padmanabhan Balaram Indian Institute of Science
Judith L. Flippen-Anderson
Judith L. Flippen-Anderson United States Naval Research Laboratory
Bernhard Witkop
Bernhard Witkop National Institutes of Health
John W. Daly
John W. Daly National Institutes of Health
Rolf Huisgen
Rolf Huisgen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Theodor Wieland
Theodor Wieland Max Planck Society
Clifford George
Clifford George United States Naval Research Laboratory
Arindam Banerjee
Arindam Banerjee Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Ray J. Butcher
Ray J. Butcher Howard University
Zakya H. Kafafi
Zakya H. Kafafi Lehigh University

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