Alfred Hassner

Alfred Hassner was born in 1930 in Austria

Alfred Hassner was born on 11 November 1930 in Czernowitz. He survived World War II in hiding with his mother, and his father died during the war.

After the war he studied chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology from 1949 to 1951. He then moved to the United States and earned a doctorate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He did postdoctoral work at Harvard University from 1956 to 1957.

He joined the University of Colorado Boulder in 1957 and became a full professor there in 1966. In 1975 he moved to Binghamton University, and in 1983 he moved to Israel with his family and joined Bar-Ilan University. His research covered regioselectivity, azides, catalysts such as DMAP and the synthesis of small ring heterocycles.

He was president of the Israel Chemical Society from 1991 to 1994 and published more than 300 research papers and 13 books. He was married to Cyd and had 5 children. He died on 27 March 2024.