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William N. Lipscomb

William N. Lipscomb

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Chemistry

D-Index
107
Citations
42673
World Ranking
908
National Ranking
360

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1976 - Nobel Prize for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding
  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1971 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1961 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1954 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

William N. Lipscomb was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research work spanned multiple scientific disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine and materials science.

The main fields of study covered in their research included:

  • Medicine
  • Materials Science

Within these fields, Lipscomb explored various subfields, specifically:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Their research topics addressed several key areas such as:

  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • ECG Monitoring and Analysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Recent publications by Lipscomb included:

  • Incorporating the Effect of Behavioral States in Multi-Step Ahead Deep Learning Based Multivariate Predictors for Blood Glucose Forecasting in Type 1 Diabetes, 2022, published in BioMedInformatics
  • CCDC 2132698: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2022, published in The Cambridge Structural Database

Frequent coauthors who collaborated with Lipscomb were:

  • Mehrad Jaloli
  • Marzia Cescon
  • S. C. Abrahams

The scholar's work appeared in key venues such as:

  • BioMedInformatics
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Throughout their career, William N. Lipscomb received numerous accolades including:

  • Nobel Prize in 1976 for studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1954 and 1972
  • Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1971
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1961

Best Publications

  • The synchronous-transit method for determining reaction pathways and locating molecular transition states

    Thomas A. Halgren;William N. Lipscomb

  • Recent Advances in Zinc Enzymology

    William N. Lipscomb;Norbert Sträter

  • Theory of Polyhedral Molecules. I. Physical Factorizations of the Secular Equation

    Roald Hoffmann;William N. Lipscomb

  • Two-Metal Ion Catalysis in Enzymatic Acyl- and Phosphoryl-Transfer Reactions

    Norbert Sträter;William N. Lipscomb;Thomas Klabunde;Bernt Krebs

  • Perturbed Hartree—Fock Calculations. I. Magnetic Susceptibility and Shielding in the LiH Molecule

    R. M. Stevens;R. M. Pitzer;W. N. Lipscomb

  • Boron Hydrides: LCAO—MO and Resonance Studies

    Roald Hoffmann;William N. Lipscomb

  • Refined crystal structure of carboxypeptidase A at 1.54 A resolution.

    D.C. Rees;M. Lewis;W.N. Lipscomb

  • The crystal structure of Haelll methyltransferase covalently complexed to DNA: An extrahelical cytosine and rearranged base pairing

    Karin M. Reinisch;Lin Chen;Gregory L. Verdine;William N. Lipscomb

  • Carboxypeptidase A: a protein and an enzyme.

    Florante A. Quiocho;William N. Lipscomb

  • Molecular structure and function

    William N. Lipscomb

  • Theory of Polyhedral Molecules. III. Population Analyses and Reactivities for the Carboranes

    Roald Hoffmann;William N. Lipscomb

  • Framework Rearrangement in Boranes and Carboranes

    William N. Lipscomb

  • The crystal structure of human interferon beta at 2.2-A resolution.

    Michael Karpusas;Matthias Nolte;Matthias Nolte;Christopher B. Benton;Werner Meier

  • Refined crystal structure of the potato inhibitor complex of carboxypeptidase A at 2.5 Å resolution

    D.C. Rees;W.N. Lipscomb

  • The structure of carboxypeptidase A. VII. The 2.0-angstrom resolution studies of the enzyme and of its complex with glycyltyrosine, and mechanistic deductions.

    Lipscomb Wn;Hartsuck Ja;Reeke Gn;Quiocho Fa

  • The Valence Structure of the Boron Hydrides

    W. H. Eberhardt;Bryce Crawford;William N. Lipscomb

  • Molecular SCF Calculations on CH4, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6, BH3, B2H6, NH3, and HCN

    William E. Palke;William N. Lipscomb

  • The Reverse Turn as a Polypeptide Conformation in Globular Proteins

    James L. Crawford;William N. Lipscomb;Charlotte G. Schellman

  • THE BORANES AND THEIR RELATIVES

    W. N. Lipscomb

  • Crystal structures of the monofunctional chorismate mutase from Bacillus subtilis and its complex with a transition state analog

    Yuh Min Chook;Hengming Ke;William N. Lipscomb

  • Crystal and molecular structures of native and CTP-liganded aspartate carbamoyltransferase from Escherichia coli

    Richard B. Honzatko;James L. Crawford;Hugo L. Monaco;Jane E. Ladner

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Dixon
David A. Dixon University of Alabama
Rodney J. Bartlett
Rodney J. Bartlett University of Florida
John F. Stanton
John F. Stanton University of Florida
Michael L. McKee
Michael L. McKee Auburn University
Irving R. Epstein
Irving R. Epstein Brandeis University
Gerhard H. Braus
Gerhard H. Braus University of Göttingen
Norbert Sträter
Norbert Sträter Leipzig University
David W. Christianson
David W. Christianson University of Pennsylvania
Douglas C. Rees
Douglas C. Rees California Institute of Technology
Raymond C. Stevens
Raymond C. Stevens University of Southern California

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