Background
Staskun, Benjamin was born on August 29, 1925 in Kovno, Lithuania. Son of Sender and Dora (Iserowitz) Staskun.
Staskun, Benjamin was born on August 29, 1925 in Kovno, Lithuania. Son of Sender and Dora (Iserowitz) Staskun.
Master of Science, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic South Africa, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic South Africa, 1955. Doctor of Science, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic South Africa, 1992.
Lecturer, U. Witwatersrand, 1962-1965; senior lecturer, U. Witwatersrand, 1965-1969; reader in organic chemistry, U. Witwatersrand, 1970-1973; reader and associate professor in chemistry, U. Witwatersrand, 1973-1992; postdoctoral fellow, U. Saskatchewan, Canada, 1961; postdoctoral associate, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1968. Visiting professor U. Delaware, Newark, 1975, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 1989.
Member Am Chemical Society, South African Chemical Institute.
Married Mina Gertrude Friedman, April 12, 1959. 1 child, Jonathan Harold.