Awards & Winners

Louis Plack Hammett

Date of Birth 07-April-1894
Place of Birth United States of America
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Nationality United States of America
Profession Chemist
Louis Plack Hammett was an American physical chemist. He is known for the Hammett equation, which relates reaction rates to equilibrium constants for certain classes of organic reactions involving substituted aromatic compounds. He is also known for his research into superacids and his development of a scheme for comparing their acidities based on what is now known as the Hammett acidity function. The Curtin–Hammett principle bears his name. The awards he obtained included the Priestley Medal in 1961. Hammett grew up in Portland, Maine, and studied in Harvard and Switzerland. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He authored an influential textbook on physical organic chemistry, and is credited with coining the term.

Awards by Louis Plack Hammett

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1967


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his joining together physical and organic chemistry, creating new concepts, and replacing intuition by rigor in our growing understanding of chemical reactivity.)