HERBERT A. HAUPTMAN
Ph.D 1955 Mathematics, D.Sc. (Hon.) 1985
COMPUTER, MATHEMATICAL & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
INDUCTED APRIL 22, 1995

While earning his doctorate in mathematics, Herbert Hauptman began a 23-year career at the Naval Research Laboratory, working with physical chemist Jerome Karle to develop a method of determining the three-dimensional shapes of molecules. By solving a problem that had perplexed chemists for 40 years, the pair enabled researchers to design new drugs for heart disease, cancer and high blood pressure. For their work, they won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Hauptman is the only non-chemist—and the first Maryland alumnus—to receive the prize. Today, he is president of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Inc. and research professor at SUNY Buffalo.

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