12 Facts About Jerome Karle

Jerome Karle was born into a Jewish family with a strong interest in the arts.

Jerome Karle had played piano as a youth and had participated in a number of competitions, but he was far more interested in science.

Jerome Karle attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, and would later join Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg, as graduates of the school to win Nobel Prizes.

Jerome Karle started college at the age of 15 and received his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1937, where he took additional courses in biology, chemistry and math in addition to the required curriculum there.

Jerome Karle earned a master's degree from Harvard University in 1938, having majored in biology.

Jerome Karle enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1940 and met his future wife, Isabella Lugoski, who was sitting at an adjoining desk during his first course in physical chemistry.

Jerome Karle was a former president of both the American Crystallographic Association and the IUCr, as well as a co-recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on direct methods.

In 1944, they returned to the University of Michigan, where Jerome Karle worked on a project for the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

At the time of his departure from government service, Jerome Karle held the chair of science as chief scientist of the Laboratory for the Structure of Matter.

Jerome Karle was married to Isabella Helen Lugoski with whom he had three daughters, all of whom work in scientific fields:.

Jerome Karle died of liver cancer on June 6,2013, at the Leewood Healthcare Center in Annandale, Virginia.

Jerome Karle is interred at the Columbia Gardens Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.