Education
Born and raised in Auburn, Maine, he attended nearby Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Surgery in Chemistry in 1943.
Born and raised in Auburn, Maine, he attended nearby Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Surgery in Chemistry in 1943.
He completed his doctorate at Harvard in 1947, under the mentorship of Paul Doughty Bartlett, and a postdoc at University of California, Los Angeles with Saul Winstein in 1948. Hammond was a leader in the field of photochemistry and was widely credited with creating the discipline of organic photochemistry. Hammond"s postulate, also known as the Hammond-Leffler postulate, was based on his 1955 publication.