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William Lipscomb

1919 to 2011 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for William Lipscomb across 3 places, from 1954 to 2011. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. (December 9, 1919 to April 14, 2011) was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where William Lipscomb was documented, and when

1954year
California Institute of Technologyattested “In a way this continued work on the nature of the chemical bond by his doctoral advisor at the California Institute of Technology, Linus Pauling, who was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research into the nature of the…” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb
2011year
Cambridge, Massachusettsattested “Lipscomb resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts until his death in 2011 from pneumonia.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb
2011year
Cambridgeattested “Lipscomb resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts until his death in 2011 from pneumonia.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb

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Places William Lipscomb is documented in

California Institute of Technology1 presence · 1954Cambridge1 presence · 2011Cambridge, Massachusetts1 presence · 2011

Other places tied to William Lipscomb in the record

In each of these, a source puts William Lipscomb and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that William Lipscomb was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1920 to 1941period
University of Kentuckymentioned “His family moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1920, and he lived there until he received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry at the University of Kentucky in 1941.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb
1920 to 1941period
Lexington, Kentuckymentioned “His family moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1920, and he lived there until he received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry at the University of Kentucky in 1941.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb
1943year
Oxfordmentioned “In 1943, Longuet-Higgins, while still an undergraduate at Oxford, was the first to explain the structure and bonding of the boron hydrides.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb
1946year
California Institute of Technologymentioned “He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1946.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb
1946 to 1959period
University of Minnesotamentioned “From 1946 to 1959 he taught at the University of Minnesota.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb
1959 to 1990period
Harvard Universitymentioned “From 1959 to 1990 he was a professor of chemistry at Harvard University, where he was a professor emeritus since 1990.” source: Wikipedia: William Lipscomb

Documented at the same place, the same year

Murray Gell-MannCalifornia Institute of Technology · 1954Daniel BellCambridge, Massachusetts · 2011Yelena BonnerCambridge, Massachusetts · 2011

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Sources

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