George C. Pimentel

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George Claude Pimentel (1922 – 1989) was the inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the modern technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-centre four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules.

An alumnus of University of California, Los Angeles (B.S. 1943) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1949), Pimentel began teaching at Berkeley in 1949, where he remained until his death in 1989.

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The George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education was named in his honour, as well as the main chemistry lecture hall at Berkeley, 1 Pimentel Hall.

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Carl Djerassi (1978) · Herman Mark (1979) · Henry Eyring (1980) · Joseph Chatt (1981) · John Charles Polanyi / George C. Pimentel (1982) · Herbert S. Gutowsky / Harden M. McConnell / John S. Waugh (1983/4) · Rudolph A. Marcus (1984/5) · Elias James Corey / Albert Eschenmoser (1986) · David C. Phillips / David Blow (1987) · Joshua Jortner / Raphael David Levine (1988) · Duilio Arigoni / Alan R. Battersby (1989) · Richard R. Ernst / Alexander Pines (1991) · John Pople (1992) · Ahmed Zewail (1993) · Richard Lerner / Peter Schultz (1994/5) · Gilbert Stork / Samuel J. Danishefsky (1995/6) · Gerhard Ertl / Gabor A. Somorjai (1998) · Raymond Lemieux (1999) · F. Albert Cotton (2000) · Henri B. Kagan / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless (2001) · Harry B. Gray (2004) · Richard N. Zare (2005) · Ada Yonath / George Feher (2006/7)  · W. E. Moerner / Allen J. Bard (2008)
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NAME Pimentel, George C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pimentel, George
SHORT DESCRIPTION Chemist, academic
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH 1989
PLACE OF DEATH