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Was Lipscomb an American chemist?

  • Yes

  • No

  • He was a British

  • He was Russian

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Yes, William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. was an American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976 for his work on the structure of boranes. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919, and studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduate school, he worked at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., and then at the University of Minnesota.
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