Prof. Robert M. Hanson St. Olaf College, USA

Robert M. Hanson is a professor of chemistry at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota, where he has been since 1986. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, working with Robert Ireland, John Roberts, and David Evans. After receiving his Ph.D. at Columbia University (natural... read moreproducs synthesis, Gilbert Stork), he spent two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working in the area of asymmetric epoxidation with K. Barry Sharpless. Prof. Hanson is the principal developer of the open-source Jmol applet and Project Director for the Jmol Molecular Visualization Project; his current interests focus on visualization of molecular structure in the areas of chemistry, molecular biology, crystallography, and solid state physics.