What is Isabella Karle?
[[File:Isabella Karle 2009.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Karle in 2009]] '''Isabella Helen Karle''' ([[née]] Lugoski; December 2, 1921 – October 3, 2017) was an American scientist. She was instrumental in developing techniques to remove [[plutonium chloride]] from a mixture containing [[plutonium oxide]]. She worked on the [[Manhattan Project]] during [[World War II]]. She was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1993.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter K|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterK.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=July 29, 2014}}</ref> For her scientific work, Karle has received the [[Garvan–Olin Medal]], [[Gregori Aminoff Prize]], [[The Franklin Institute Awards|Bower Award]], [[National Medal of Science]], and the [[Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award]] (which is the Navy's highest form of recognition to civilian employees). Karle was born in [[Detroit, Michigan]]. She studied at the [[University of Michigan]]. In 1942, she married [[Jerome Karle]], a [[Nobel Prize]] winner.<ref name=Nobel>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1985/karle-autobio.html Jerome Karle: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606055627/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1985/karle-autobio.html |date=2013-06-06 }}, [[Nobel Prize]]. Accessed September 22, 2009.</ref> They had three children. Karle died on October 3, 2017 at a hospice in [[Alexandria, Virginia]] of [[brain cancer]] at the age of 95.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Isabella L. Karle, chemist who helped reveal structure of molecules, dies at 95 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/isabella-l-karle-chemist-who-helped-reveal-structure-of-molecules-dies-at-95/2017/10/20/c778f268-b4ee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.4e54c31cfad0 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://manhattanp