George S. Hammond
George Simms Hammond ( May 22nd, 1921 in Auburn ( Maine), † October 5, 2005 in Portland ( Oregon)) was an American chemist. He is considered one of the founders of organic photochemistry.
Hammond attended Bates College in Lewiston (Maine) with a bachelor 's degree in chemistry, magna cum laude in 1943 and received his doctorate in 1947 with Paul D. Bartlett at Harvard University. As a post - graduate student he was at the University of California, Los Angeles with Saul Winstein. In 1948, he was Assistant Professor and later a professor at Iowa State University and in 1958 he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at Caltech, from 1968 when Arthur Amos Noyes Professor. 1968 to 1972 he was Director of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. From 1972 he was professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He was also in the 1970s to 1987 in various management positions with Allied Signal Corporation in Morristown (New Jersey).
According to him, the Hammond postulate is named (sometimes Hammond -Leffler postulate ).
In 1994 he received the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal and the National Medal of Science. He received the Priestley Medal (1976 ), the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry and the James Flack Norris Award ( 1968). He is a multiple honorary doctorates ( Ghent, Weizmann Institute of Science, Wittenberg, Bates College, Georgetown University, Bowling Green State University). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and from 1974 to 1978 the Secretary of Foreign Affairs since 1963. In 1965 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1956/1957 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.
Writings
- Models in chemical science; an introduction to general chemistry, Benjamin 1971
- With Donald J. Cram: Organic Chemistry, 1959, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1964, 3rd Edition by James B. Hendrickson 1970
- With John H. Richards, Donald J. Cram Elements of Organic Chemistry, McGraw Hill 1967
- With James S. Fritz: Quantitative Organic Analysis, Wiley 1957
- With Joseph B. Dence, Harry B. Gray: Chemical Dynamics, Benjamin 1968