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10 Facts About Corwin Hansch

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Corwin Herman Hansch was a professor of chemistry at Pomona College in California.

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Corwin Hansch became known as the 'father of computer-assisted molecule design.

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Corwin Hansch earned a BS from the University of Illinois in 1940 and a PhD from New York University in 1944.

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Corwin Hansch briefly worked as a postdoc at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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Corwin Hansch worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago and as a group leader at DuPont Nemours in Richland, Washington.

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Corwin Hansch completed sabbaticals at ETH Zurich with Vladimir Prelog and at University of Munich with Rolf Huisgen.

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Corwin Hansch taught Organic Chemistry for many years at Pomona College, and was known for giving complex lectures without using notes.

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Corwin Hansch is noted for the Hansch equation, which is used in.

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Corwin Hansch died of pneumonia on May 8,2011, in Claremont, California, at 92.

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The Pomona College Archives holds reprints of Corwin Hansch's articles published between 1962 and 2009 in addition to other materials.