Odd Hassel

Odd Hassel (born on May 17th 1897 with Oslo; died on May 11th 1981 in Oslo) was a Norwegian chemist.

In 1969, it obtained with the English chemist Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton the Nobel Prize of chemistry for their contribution to the development of the concept of Conformation and its application in chemistry.

Biography

His/her parents were Ernst Hassel, a gynecologist, and Mathilde Klaveness. After studies in Oslo of 1915 with 1920 and a sabbatical year with Paris and in Italy, it left to the autumn 1922 for 6 months to Munich where it worked at Kasimir Fajans. Finally it arrived at the Institut Kaiser-Wilhelm at Berlin. In 1924, it obtained its doctorate. And in 1925, it turned over in Norway. With the University of Oslo, he became lecturer of chemistry physical and electrochemistry in 1926. Of 1934 with 1964, he became physical chemistry teacher in Oslo.

With the beginning of its career in Oslo, it dealt mainly with inorganic chemistry. From 1930, it reorientated its field of research on the structure of the molecules and the Diffraction of the electrons, mainly on the Cyclohexane and its derivatives. In 1943 it was imprisoned by the German occupants to be released in November 1944. After the war, it continued its research and elucidated the structure chair of cyclohexane. In 1969, it obtained for its work the Nobel Prize of chemistry.

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External bonds

Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of chemistry 1969
Biography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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