Herbert Leopold Strauss (March 26, 1936–December 2, 2014) was an American chemist who specialized in spectroscopy.
His family fled Nazi Germany and eventually immigrated to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University.
[1][2] While in London, Herbert Strauss was temporarily placed in an orphanage, where he became seriously ill from bronchitis and nearly died.
[2] Upon finishing his PhD, he spent a year conducting post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford.
[1] In 1957, he met Carolyn North Cooper at a church in Manhattan during a midnight mass, despite both being Jewish.