Michael Hartshorn | |
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| Born | Michael Philip Hartshorn (1936-09-10)10 September 1936 Keresley,Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 15 December 2017(2017-12-15) (aged 81) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Awards | Hector Memorial Medal (1973) |
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| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury |
| Thesis | Steroid hormone analogues (1960) |
Michael Philip Hartshorn (10 September 1936 – 15 December 2017) was a British-born New Zealandorganic chemist. He was awarded theHector Memorial Medal by theRoyal Society of New Zealand in 1973.
Born inKeresley on the outskirts ofCoventry,Warwickshire, England, on 10 September 1936,[1] Hartshorn was the son of Bernard Hartshorn and Christine Evelyn Hartshorn (née Bennett). He studied atImperial College London, from where he graduatedBSc andARCS, and atUniversity College, Oxford, where he obtained aDPhil in 1960.[2] His doctoral thesis was titledSteroid hormone analogues.[3]
Hartshorn married Jacqueline Joll in 1963, and the couple went on to have four sons.[4] He became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1965.[1]
Hartshorn was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at theUniversity of Canterbury inChristchurch in 1960, and rose to become a professor in 1972. When he retired in 1996 he was made aprofessor emeritus.[5]
Hartshorn's research centred onreaction mechanisms. He investigated the chemical rearrangement ofsteroids, cyclic sulfites,monoterpenes andacetylenic alcohols. His research included theipso nitration ofaromatic hydrocarbons andphenols, and their reactions withfuming nitric acid andnitrogen dioxide, as well as thechlorination of polysubstituted phenols. He also studied the reactions of cationradicals arising from thephotolysis of aromatic hydrocarbons.[6]
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.[2] In 1973, he received the Hector Memorial Medal,[7] at that time the highest honour for scientific excellence awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Hartshorn died inChristchurch on 15 December 2017.[4]
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