232:, on March 23, 1926, and had two brothers. He was married to F. Irene Lienkaemper from 1948 until her death in 1996. The couple raised three children. Corbett died on September 2, 2013, at the age of 87, following a stroke. The John D. Corbett Professorship was established in 2007, within Iowa State University's Department of Chemistry.
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Meyer, Gerd; Hwu, Shiou-Jyh; Wijeyeshekera, Sunil; Corbett, John D. (1986). "Synthetic study of some rare-earth-metal monohalide hydrides MXHx and their alkali-metal intercalates".
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Henning, Robert; Leon-Escamilla, E.A.; Zhao, Jing-Tai; Corbett, John D. (1997). "Stabilization by
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Bonding in One, Two, and Three Dimensions: Extending the ZintlâKlemm Concept to Nonclassical ElectronâRich Networks".
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Schnering, Hans Georg (1986). "Site preferences and bond length differences in CaAl2Si2-type Zintl compounds".
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