Dudley Robert Herschbach(born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist atHarvard University. He won the 1986Nobel Prize in Chemistryjointly withYuan T. LeeandJohn C. Polanyi"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".Herschbach and Lee specifically worked with molecular beams, performingcrossed molecular beamexperiments that enabled a detailed molecular-level understanding of many elementary reaction processes. Herschbach is a member of the Board of Sponsors of theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Fields: Chemistry Education: Stanford University BS MS Harvard University MA PhD