Stephen Hanessian

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.

Stephen Hanessian
Hanessian in 1987
BornApril 25, 1935 (1935-04-25) (age 85)
Alexandria, Egypt
OccupationChemist, academic

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
gollark: If you get the density in, say, kg/m³, then the mass is in kg and volume is in m³.
gollark: I think common density units are stuff like kilograms per m³, or grams per cm³.
gollark: Probably not. I don't know a massive amount about this, but the nuclear waste which does not get reused or something is kept out of the way of humans because it is dangerous.
gollark: Redesign what?
gollark: RTGs are a thing, they use them to power space probes, but they use specific fuels and not just random nuclear waste.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.