In the history of science, Richard F. Heck is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Richard F. Heck as American chemist (1931–2015).
Richard F. Heck was born in 1931. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at University of California, Los Angeles and University of Delaware.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as chemist and researcher.
His affiliations include University of Delaware and De La Salle University.
A scientific contribution counts if the next generation could build on it without re-checking.
His recorded fields of work are chemistry.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2010).
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Richard F. Heck died in 2015 at the age of 84. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2010
- Affiliated with University of Delaware and De La Salle University
- Educated at University of California, Los Angeles and University of Delaware
- Worked as chemist and researcher
