| Odd Hassel  Born: 17-May-1897
Birthplace: Oslo, Norway
Died: 11-May-1981
Location of death: Oslo, Norway
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: Norway
Executive summary: Conformational analysis Norwegian chemist Odd Hassel won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1967, for his 1950 work laying out the fundamentals of conformational analysis (the study of molecules' three-dimensional geometric structure). His Nobel honor was shared with Derek Barton, who conducted similar research independently. Father: Ernst Hassel (gynecologist, d. 1905)
Mother: Mathilde Klaveness
Brother: Lars Hassel (twin)
University: BS Chemistry, University of Oslo (1920)
University: PhD Chemistry, University of Berlin (1924)
Teacher: Chemistry, University of Oslo (1925-34)
Professor: Physical Chemistry, University of Oslo (1934-64)
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1923-24
Fridtjof Nansen Award 1946
Guldber and Waage's Law of Mass Action Memorial Medal 1964
Gunnerus Medal 1964
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1969 (with Derek Barton)
Order of St. Olav
Chemical Society of London
Norwegian Academy of Science
Norwegian Chemical Society
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Taken Prisoner of War Held by Nazis at Grini concentration camp, 1943-44
Author of books:
Kristallchemie (Crystal Chemistry) (1934, chemistry)
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