Nationality American Fields Organic chemistry Spouse Gloria Hansch (m. 1944) | Name Corwin Hansch | |
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Born Corwin Herman Hansch
October 6, 1918
Kenmare, North Dakota ( 1918-10-06 ) Institutions Pomona College
Manhattan Project Alma mater University of Illinois
New York University Died May 8, 2011, Claremont, California, United States Books Substituent Constants for Correlation Analysis in Chemistry and Biology Education New York University (1944), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Notable awards Tolman Award (1975) | ||
Corwin Herman Hansch (October 6, 1918 – May 8, 2011) was a Professor of Chemistry at Pomona College in California. He became known as the 'father of computer-assisted molecule design.'
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Early life and childhood
He was born on October 6, 1918 in Kenmare, North Dakota.
Education
He earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois in 1940 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1944.
Career
Hansch worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago and as a group leader at DuPont Nemours in Richland, Washington. In February 1946 he received an academic position at Pomona College.
Hansch taught Organic Chemistry for many years at Pomona College, and was known for giving complex lectures without using notes. His course in Physical Bio-Organic Medicinal Chemistry was ground-breaking at an undergraduate level.
Hansch may be best known as the father of the concept of quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR), the quantitative correlation of the physicochemical properties of molecules with their biological activities.
He is also noted for the Hansch equation, which is used in
Research Interests: Organic Chemistry; Interaction of organic chemicals with living organisms, Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR).
Death
He died of pneumonia on May 8, 2011 in Claremont, California at 92.