Odd Hassel
Odd Hassel (born May 17, 1897 in Kristiania (now Oslo ), † May 11, 1981 ibid) was a Norwegian chemist.
In 1969 he and the English chemist Sir Derek HR Barton received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their work on the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry".
life and work
His father was the physicist Ernst Hassel, his mother was Mathilde Klaveness. After studying from 1915 to 1920 in Oslo and a year of leisure in France and Italy , he went to Munich for six months in autumn 1922 and worked there with Kasimir Fajans . Then he was at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin-Dahlem , where he in 1924 when F. Herman Mark with the work , the lattice structure of the Acetaldehydammoniaks and metaldehyde doctorate was. In 1925 he returned to Norway. At the University of Oslo in 1926 he became a lecturer in physical and electro-chemistry . From 1934 to 1964 he was full professor of physical chemistry in Oslo.
In the early years of his work in Oslo, Hassel was mainly concerned with inorganic chemistry, but from 1930 he turned to researching the structure of molecules by means of electron diffraction , especially cyclohexane and its derivatives. In 1943 he was arrested by the German occupying forces and released in November 1944. After the war he continued his research and clarified the chair structure of cyclohexane.
Fonts
- Kristallchemie, Dresden, Theodor Steinkopf 1934.
Web links
- Literature by and about Odd Hassel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1969 award to Odd Hassel
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Odd Hassel at academictree.org, accessed on February 8, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hassel, Odd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1981 |
| Place of death | Oslo |