Richard A. Andersen

Richard A. Andersen (November 16, 1942 – June 16, 2019) was a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty senior scientist at the chemical sciences division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Early life and career Born in Oklahoma in 1942, Richard Allan Andersen was raised and educated in the small town of Yankton, South Dakota. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1965 from the University of South Dakota.

Andersen then spent a year as postdoctoral researcher at the Oslo Centre for Industrial Research. On the day it was announced that Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst O. Fisher would share the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Andersen received an offer to conduct his postdoctoral research in Wilkinson's laboratory at Imperial College London. as well as his hands-on approach to teaching undergraduate laboratory courses. which was later found to have pyramidal geometry.

Awards and honors

Andersen was awarded many Visiting Professorships around the world, including appointments in Sevilla, Lyon, Montpellier, New South Wales, and Zurich. Andersen was also a member of the Royal Chemical Society, American Chemical Society, and Sigma Xi.