William Z. Hassid
Author
1899 – 1974
Who was William Z. Hassid?
Dr. William Zev Hassid was a pioneer research scientist in sugar biochemistry. Hassid announced the synthesis of sucrose in 1944. He received the Sugar Research Award of the National Academy of Sciences for this discovery in 1945. He also received the Charles Reid Barnes Honorary Life Membership Award of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, and the C. S. Hudson Award of the American Chemical Society. In 1972 he was recognized the Sixth International Symposium on Carbohydrate Chemistry as one of three outstanding senior American carbohydrate chemists. Hassid served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and as Chairman of the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
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- Born
- Oct 1, 1899
Jaffa - Also known as
- William Zev Hassid
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Plant physiology
( - 1934)
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Berkeley
( - 1974/04/28)
- Berkeley
- Died
- Apr 28, 1974
Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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