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Alumni receive international academic recognition
In 1983, in honour of his work in the study of mechanisms of electron transfer reactions in metal complexes, Dr Henry Taube was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Henry Taube graduated from Luther College in 1933. He went on to earn his doctorate at the University of California in 1940. The only Saskatchewan-educated Nobel Laureate, Dr Taube returned to Luther in 1988 to give the annual Luther Lecture. In more recent years, five Luther graduates have been recipients of Rhodes Scholarships: Greg Brandt (1961), Robert Condon McKenzie (1971), Bryan Hillis (1979), Roger Petry (1990), and Dwight Newman (2001).  Since studying at Oxford, Drs Hillis and Petry have returned to Luther as professors at the university campus.