Word: neudorf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taube, who was born to a day laborer's family in Neudorf, Saskatchewan, and moved to the U.S. in 1937, celebrated his award at the regular hamburger and beer party he gives for his students (they provided champagne). With characteristic modesty, he insisted that there were "so many deserving people" who might have been given the prize. But colleagues vehemently disagreed, pointing out that he had totally dominated inorganic chemistry with the originality of his insights into chemical reactions, especially those between metals...