Daryle Hadley Busch (March 30, 1928 – May 19, 2021) was an American inorganic chemist. A native of

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, born in 1928, Busch attended

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and earned a master's and doctorate in chemistry from the

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. Upon graduation, he began teaching at the

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. Busch was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1981. He retired from OSU in 1988, a year after he had been appointed to a presidential professorship. Busch then joined the

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faculty as Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. He was president of the

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in 2000.

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1928 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American chemists 21st-century American chemists Southern Illinois University alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Ohio State University faculty University of Kansas faculty Inorganic chemists Presidents of the American Chemical Society People from Carterville, Illinois Scientists from Illinois {{US-chemist-stub