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American physical chemist
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Henry Albert Bent
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Place of birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
SagittariusPlace of death
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Age
88 years
Awards
George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education
(1980)
James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry
(1984)
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Henry A. Bent (December 21, 1926 – January 3, 2015) was a professor of physical chemistry who studied molecular orbitals to develop atomic hybridization and valence bond theories. Bent's rule, which predicts the orbital hybridization of a central atom as a function of the electronegativities of the substituents attached to it, is named for him.
In thermodynamics he developed a global approach now known as "entropy analysis" for the entropy component of thermodynamic free energy in relation to the second law of thermodynamics and the spontaneity of various chemical processes.
Bent was also interested in the periodic laws of the elements and promoted the left-step periodic table based on orbital-filling rules.
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