Background
Hammond, George Simms was born on May 22, 1921 in Auburn, Maine, United States. Son of Oswald Kenric and Marjorie (Thomas) Hammond.
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Contents: * The "Vocabulary" of Photochemistry - J. N. Pitts, Jr., F. Wilkinson, and G. S. Hammond * The Photochemistry of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Solutions - E. J. Bowen * Photochemical Gas Phase Reactions in the Hydrogen-Oxygen System - D. H. Volman * Photochemistry of the Cyclic Ketones - R. Srinivasan * Addition of Atoms to Olefins in the Gas Phase - R. J. Cvetanovic * A New Approach to Mechanistic Organic Photochemistry - H. E. Zimmerman * Isotopic Effects and the Mechanism of Energy Transfer in Mercury Photosensitization - H. E. Gunning and O. P. Strausz * Photochromism - R. Dessauer and J. P. Paris * Photochemical Rearrangements of Organic Molecules - O. L. Chapman * Author Index * Subject Index
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Hammond, George Simms was born on May 22, 1921 in Auburn, Maine, United States. Son of Oswald Kenric and Marjorie (Thomas) Hammond.
Bachelor of Science, Bates College, 1963; Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1947; Doctor of Science (honorary), Wittenberg U., 1972; Doctor of Science (honorary), Bates College, 1973; Doctor honoris causa, U. Ghent, 1973; Doctor honoris causa, Georgetown University, 1985; Doctor honoris causa, Bowling Green State University, 1990; Doctor honoris causa, Weizman Institute Science, 1993.
Postdoctoral fellow, University of California at Los Angeles, 1947-1948;
member of faculty, Iowa State College, 1948-1958;
professor of chemistry, Iowa State College, 1956-1958;
visiting associate professor, University of Illinois, summer 1953;
professor organic chemistry, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, 1958-1972;
division chemistry and chemical engineering, California Institute Technology, 1968-1972;
Arthur Amos Noyes professor of chemistry. Vice chancellor natural science, University of California-Santa Cruz, 1972-1974;
professor of chemistry, University of California-Santa Cruz, 1972-1978;
executive director for Bioscience, metals and ceramics, Allied Corporation, Morristown, New Jersey, 1978-1988;
consultant, since 1988. Member chemical advisory panel National Science Foundation, 1962-1965.
Foreign secretary National Academy Sciences, 1974-1978.
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Member NAS, American Chemical Society (award in petroleum chemistry 1960, Priestlymedal 1976, National medal of science 1994, Seaborg medal 1994), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Materials Research Society, Inter-American Photochem. Society, European Photochem. Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Marian Reese, June 8, 1945 (divorced 1977). Children: Kenric, Janet, Steven, Barbara, Jeremy. M.Eva L. Menger, May 22, 1977.
Stepchildren— Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Lenore Menger-Anderson.