Michael Philip Hartshorn was a British-born New Zealand organic chemist.
10 Facts About Michael Hartshorn
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Michael Hartshorn was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1973.
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Michael Hartshorn studied at Imperial College London, from where he graduated BSc and ARCS, and at University College, Oxford, where he obtained a DPhil in 1960.
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Michael Hartshorn married Jacqueline Joll in 1963, and the couple went on to have four sons.
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Michael Hartshorn became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1965.
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Michael Hartshorn was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch in 1960, and rose to become a professor in 1972.
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Michael Hartshorn investigated the chemical rearrangement of steroids, cyclic sulfites, monoterpenes and acetylenic alcohols.
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Michael Hartshorn's research included the ipso nitration of aromatic hydrocarbons and phenols, and their reactions with fuming nitric acid and nitrogen dioxide, as well as the chlorination of polysubstituted phenols.
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Michael Hartshorn studied the reactions of cation radicals arising from the photolysis of aromatic hydrocarbons.
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Michael Hartshorn was elected a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry in 1969, and a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand the following year.