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Mar 22, 1914 New York City, New York, United States Died on 13 Mar 1993 (aged 78)
American chemist
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About Nathan Kornblum
- Nathan Kornblum (March 22, 1914 – March 13, 1993) was a professor of Organic Chemistry and a researcher at Purdue University, IN, and received grants for projects from 1970-1983.
- He was born in New York City on March 22, 1914 to immigrant parents, Frances (Newmark) and Samuel Kornblum.
- His main research focus was electron transfer substitution reactions.
- His most famous work was the discovery of the Kornblum oxidation and also the Kornblum substitution.
- He was also known for Kornblum's rule in acid-base chemistry.
- He was the Plutonium chapter advisor for Iota Sigma Pi Honors Society for Women in Chemistry, which was established in February 1963.
- In 1952, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship award.
- He authored a chapter in an Organic Reactions textbook which was published in 2011, and wrote a review entitled "Synthetic Aspects of Electron-Transfer Chemistry" which was published in 1990 by Sigma-Aldrich.
