Nationality United States Name Lawrence Dahl | ||
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Lawrence F. Dahl (born June 2, 1929) is an R.E. Rundle and Hilldale Professor of Chemistry, emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dahl is an inorganic chemist, and his research focused on high-nuclearity metallic compounds. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.
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Early life and education
Dahl was born in 1929. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of Louisville in 1951 and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1956.
Career
In 1957 Dahl joined the faculty in the chemistry department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Since then, his laboratory has made significant contributions in the synthesis, structure, and bonding of transition metal compounds. Dahl has trained 95 Ph.D. candidates, 24 M.S. students, 45 undergraduate research students, and 15 postdoctoral fellows.