Awards & Winners

Isabella Karle

Date of Birth 02-December-1921
Place of Birth Detroit
(Wayne County, Michigan, United States of America, Area code 313)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Isabella L. Karle
Profession Crystallography
Isabella Helen Lugoski Karle is an American x-ray crystallographer. In 1969 she established the structure of venom extracted from South American frogs. This was followed in 1975 with the structure of valinomycin.

Awards by Isabella Karle

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1995


NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
(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.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(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.)