Announcement Nominations Sought for 2004 American Chemical Society Technical Achievements in Organic Chemistry Award Program

2003 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
American Chemical Society ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Award Program

Stephen John Angyal 1914–2012

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
John D. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
American Chemical Society ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Head Of School ◽  
South Wales ◽  
University Of Technology

Stephen Angyal was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 21 November 1914 and died in Sydney on 14 May 2012. He had a distinguished career as an organic chemist as a lecturer in chemistry at Sydney University (1946–52), as an associate professor in organic chemistry at the New South Wales University of Technology (1953–9), and as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (1960–79) where he served as Head of School (1968–70) and Dean of the Faculty of Science (1970–9). He was internationally recognized for his contributions in the fields of inositol and carbohydrate chemistry, being appointed as the Haworth Memorial Lecturer of the Chemical Society, London, in 1980 and as the recipient of the Claude S. Hudson Award of the American Chemical Society in 1987. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1962 and as an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1990 and his contributions to science in Australia were acknowledged in the award of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1977.

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