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Ernest Grunwald

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Name
  
Ernest Grunwald

Role
  
Chemist

Died
  
March 28, 2002


Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles (1947)

Books
  
Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Ernest Grunwald (November 2, 1923 – March 28, 2002) was a German-born American physical organic chemist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the chair of the chemistry department at Brandeis University. He was also noted for his 1997 textbook Thermodynamics of Molecular Species.

Career and life

Grunwald graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944 with a B.S. in chemistry and B.A. in physics in 1944. He received his doctorate in 1947. In 1965, he became the chairman of the chemistry department at Brandeis University. Grunwald retired in 1989.

References

Ernest Grunwald Wikipedia