Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood (1920–1998) was an American chemist known for pioneering work in the use of computers to determine chemical structures.
[1] His work is recognized as significantly contributing to Nobel Prizes being awarded to his long-term collaborators Dorothy Hodgkin and Donald Cram.
His organization of a departmental X-ray crystallography lab served as a worldwide model for other chemistry departments.
He was dean of UCLA's College of Letters and Science from 1971 to 1974, and chair of its Academic Senate from 1983 to 1984.
[2][3] In 2018, UCLA created the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry and appointed Neil K. Garg as the inaugural chairholder.