- Stephen Hanessian
Stephen Hanessian,
PhD , OC, is a Canadianchemist andprofessor born onApril 25 1935 inAlexandria ,Egypt . His research group atUniversité 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. atOhio State University in 1960, under the direction of M. L. Wolfrom. He worked as a researcher for Parke-Davis & Co. inAnn Arbor ,Michigan until 1968. In 1969 he joined Université de Montréal. Since 2000, he is also an adjunct professor atUniversity of California, Irvine .Awards
* 1974 -
Merck Sharpe & Dohme Award ,Chemical Institute of Canada
* 1982 -Hudson Award ,American Chemical Society
* 1987 -Urgel Archambault Award
* 1988 -CIC Palladium Medal ,Chemical Institute of Canada
* 1988 -Alfred Bader Award inorganic chemistry ,Canadian Society for Chemistry
* 1988 - "Officer" of theOrder of Canada
* 1988 - "Fellow" of theRoyal Society of Canada
* 1991 -Bell Canada-Forum Award
* 1991 -Prix Marie-Victorin
* 1992 -E. Smissman Medal ,University of Kansas
* 1993 -M.L. Wolfrom Award ,American Chemical Society
* 1996 -A.C. Cope Scholar Award ,American Chemical Society
* 1997 -Izaak-Walton-Killam Award
* 1997 -Compagnon Lavoisier ,Ordre des chimistes du Québec
* 1998 - "Officer" of theOrder of Canada External links
* [http://osiris.corg.umontreal.ca/index.shtml Research group homepage]
* [http://osiris.corg.umontreal.ca/chiron.shtml Chiron software homepage]
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