Stephen Hanessian

Stephen Hanessian, OC, FRSC, (born April 25, 1935) is a chemist and professor of Canadian and United States citizenship born in Alexandria, Egypt. His research group at Université de Montréal is well known for developing synthetic methodologies, as well as natural product total synthesis. In addition, his group developed Chiron, a computer program used by organic chemists for synthetic planning.

He earned his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1960, under the direction of M. L. Wolfrom. He worked as a researcher for Parke-Davis & Co. in Ann Arbor, Michigan until 1968. In 1969 he joined Université de Montréal. Since 2000, he has also been an adjunct professor at University of California, Irvine.

Awards 1974 - Merck Sharpe & Dohme Award, Chemical Institute of Canada 1982 - Hudson Award, American Chemical Society 1987 - Urgel Archambault Award 1988 - CIC Palladium Medal, Chemical Institute of Canada 1988 - Alfred Bader Award in organic chemistry, Canadian Society for Chemistry 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1991 - Bell Canada-Forum Award 1991 - Prix Marie-Victorin 1992 - E. Smissman Medal, University of Kansas 1993 - M. L. Wolfrom Award, American Chemical Society 1996 - Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society 1997 - Izaak-Walton-Killam Award 1997 - Compagnon Lavoisier, Ordre des chimistes du Québec 1998 - Officer of the Order of Canada