Michael Hartshorn
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10 September 1936
Michael Hartshorn | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael Philip Hartshorn 10 September 1936 Keresley, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 15 December 2017 (aged 81) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Spouse |
Jacqueline Joll (m. 1963) |
| Awards | Hector Memorial Medal (1973) |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 Zealand organic chemist. He was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1973.
Born in Keresley on the outskirts of Coventry, Warwickshire, England, on 10 September 1936,[1] Hartshorn was the son of Bernard Hartshorn and Christine Evelyn Hartshorn (née Bennett). He studied at Imperial College London, from where he graduated BSc and ARCS, and at University College, Oxford, where he obtained a DPhil in 1960.[2] His doctoral thesis was titled Steroid 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]
