Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". Herschbach and Lee specifically worked with molecular beams, performing crossed molecular beam experiments that enabled a detailed molecular-level understanding of many elementary reaction processes. Herschbach is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986, announced October 15, 1986. Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, and John C. Polanyi, “for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”. Dudley R. Herschbach: born 1932, San José, CA, USA. Yuan T. Lee: born 1936, Hsinchu, Taiwan. John C. Polanyi: born 1929, Berlin, Germany. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).