Stephen Hanessian
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Born | April 25, 1935 | (age 86)
Occupation | Chemist, academic |
Stephen Hanessian, OC, FRSC, (born April 25, 1935) is a chemist and professor of Canadian and United States citizenship born in Alexandria, Egypt. His research group at Université de Montréal is well known for developing synthetic methodologies, as well as natural product total synthesis. In addition, his group developed Chiron, a computer program used by organic chemists for synthetic planning.
He earned his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1960, under the direction of M. L. Wolfrom. He worked as a researcher for Parke-Davis & Co. in Ann Arbor, Michigan until 1968. In 1969 he joined Université de Montréal. Since 2000, he is also an adjunct professor at University of California, Irvine.
Awards[]
- 1974 - , Chemical Institute of Canada
- 1982 - , American Chemical Society
- 1987 -
- 1988 - , Chemical Institute of Canada
- 1988 - in organic chemistry, Canadian Society for Chemistry
- 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1991 -
- 1991 - Prix Marie-Victorin
- 1992 - , University of Kansas
- 1993 - M. L. Wolfrom Award, American Chemical Society
- 1996 - Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society
- 1997 - Izaak-Walton-Killam Award
- 1997 - ,
- 1998 - Officer of the Order of Canada
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Categories:
- Canadian people of Armenian descent
- Canadian chemists
- Egyptian emigrants to Canada
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Ohio State University alumni