Awards & Winners

Kenneth Pitzer

Date of Birth 06-January-1914
Place of Birth Pomona
(Los Angeles County, California, United States of America, Area code 909)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Chemist
Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer was an American physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president. He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis."

Awards by Kenneth Pitzer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Kenneth Pitzer.

1974


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his pioneering application of statistical thermodynamics and spectroscopy to our understanding of the properties of organic and inorganic materials.)