Issue in Honor of Prof. Alfred Hassner ARKIVOC (iv) 1-4
As a scholar, Fred has held visiting professorships and appointments in many universities throughout the years. These include Harvard (1966), ETH (NIH Special Fellow, l967), Wurzburg (1971), Weizmann Institute of Science (NIH Special Fellow, l972-73, 1981-2), Hebrew University (1969), Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, (1980), Kyushu Institute of Technology (1985), Stanford (1987), University of California, Berkeley (1989), University of Nijmegen (1995), University of California, San Diego (1998). He has also served as a consultant with S.P. Corp., Lincoln, NE Research Chemistry (1952-54), E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (1954), Univ. of Colorado Medical School (1958-62), Physics-Engineering-Chemistry Corp. (1962-64), Food and Drug Administration (1967), Boulder Research Instruments (1969-73), 3M Company (1975-77), TAMI, Haifa (1988- 1999), SKB, King of Prussia (1990).
Professor Hassner has also been the recipient of numerous distinctions and awards for his outstanding contributions to chemistry. He was a Monsanto Fellow (1954-56), on the Council on Research Fellowship, Harvard University (1966), a National Cancer Institute Special Fellow, ETH, Zurich (Prof. Prelog) (1967), recipient of a von Humboldt Award (1971), a Weizmann Senior Fellow - NIH Special Fellow (1972-77), ACS National Awards Committee, Lady Davis Foundation Award (1979), NSF US-India Exchange Lecturer (1979), France-US Lecturer, Univ. of Lyon (1980), Nominee SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1979), Meyerhoff Fellow (1981-82), Fulbright Senior Award (1983), Member NIH Medicinal Chemistry Study Session (1981-84), Japan Society for Promotion of Science Award (1985), U.S. National Research Council Award (1993), A.W. Killam Award, Canada (1998), President, Israel Chemical Society (1991 – 1994). In addition, Fred has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Organic Preparations and Procedures International and Heterocyclic Communications.
Throughout the chemical community, Fred has played an important role in both the organization and content of many National and International Meetings including contributing over 150 scientific papers. He has chaired symposia including the Gordon Research Conference on Heterocycles (1977), ACS Symposium on Electrophilic Additions (1964), Centennial Symposium (1976), International Symposium on Chemistry of Strained Rings (1977), 12th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry (1989), Co-Chairman of the International Symposium on “Selectivity on Basic and Applied Organic Chemistry (1995). He has given over 250 invited seminars at universities and industrial laboratories. In addition, he has presented 37 plenary or invited symposia lectures over his career. He has authored or been the Editor on numerous books and monographs: A. Hassner and C. Stumer, "Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reactions and Unnamed Reactions". Pergamon Elsevier Science, (1994), 452 pp.; A. Hassner, Editor, "Small Ring Heterocycles, Part 1. Aziridines, Azirines, Thiiranes, Thiirenes", J. Wiley & Sons, New York (1983) 696 pp.; "Small Ring Heterocycles, Part 2. Azetidines. .-Lactams, Diazetidines, Diaziridines", J. Wiley & Sons, New York (1983) 656 pp.; "Small Ring Heterocycles, Part 3, Oxiranes, Arene Oxides, Oxaziridines, Dioxetanes, Thietanes, Thietes, Thiazetes", John Wiley and Sons, New York, (1985) 874 pp.; “Advances in Asymmetric Synthesis”, vol. 1, JAI Press, (1995), 320 pp.; vol. 2, JAI Press (1997), 310 pp.; "Advances in
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