Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Odd Hassel: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born May 17, 1897 • Oslo • Norway
Died May 11, 1981 (aged 83) • Oslo • Norway
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1969)
Subjects Of Study conformation • conformational analysis • cyclohexane • organohalogen compound
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
default image
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
default image
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
default image
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Ahmed Zewail, wearing a suit and purple tie, speaks at a podium against a dark background at the UNESCO and L'Oreal Awards for Women and Science.
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
default image
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
default image
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
default image
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
default image
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
default image
William Francis Giauque
American chemist
default image
Lars Onsager
American chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist