Personal Life
Odd Hassel was born on May 17, 1897 in Christiana (now called Oslo), Norway. His father Ernst Hassel died while Hassel was only eight years old. Hassel had a twin brother, Leif. This left his mother, Mathilde Klaveness to raise Hassel and his three brothers and one sister. Hassel attended the University of Oslo in 1915 to study chemistry. In the beginning of World War II, Germany invaded Norway and sent the staff of the University of Oslo, including Hassel, to an internment camp. Hassel continued his research until his freedom in 1944. After his retirement in 1964, Hassel continued his research. It was not until 1969 that the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Barton for their work in the 1940s. By this time, Hassel had already received the Fridtjof Nansen Award of Sciences as well as the Guldberg-Waage medal from the Norwegian Chemical Society in 1964. Hassel died on May 15, 1981.
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