Henry Taube was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was Born on November 30, 1915, in Neudorf, Canada. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan, and went on to get his Ph.D in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1940. He became a United States citizen in 1942. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science in 1977, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1983 for his work on the mechanism of an electron transfer reaction. He also received a Doctor of Laws degree in 1973 from the University of Saskatchewan. He died on November 16, 2005 in Palo Alto, California, United States.