George died peacefully at home on October 5, 2005.
A memorial service was held on Saturday, November 12, at 1 pm in the Unitarian Church in Hillsboro, Oregon.
George wished to have remembrances to go to:
Bates College George S. Hammond Chemistry Scholarship Fund
Advancement Office
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, ME 04240
Slides shown at the memorial service (courtesy of Brian Leigh, Caltech)
webmaster for this site: Carl Wamser (wamserc@pdx.edu)
Memorial issue honoring George S. Hammond:
Festschrift honoring George Hammond and Michael Kasha on their 80th birthdays:
Intro / / GSH Bio / / Hammond Researchers / / Table of Contents
Symposium photos
1:30 pm | Carl Wamser, Portland State University | Introductory Remarks |
1:35 pm | Jay Kochi, University of Houston | Charge-Transfer Photochemistry |
2:15 pm | Nick Turro, Columbia University | Supramolecular Photochemistry |
2:55 pm | Intermission | |
3:00 pm | Nate Lewis, Caltech | Nanocrystalline Solar Cells |
3:40 pm | Tom Penner, Eastman Kodak | Photochemistry in Ordered Thin Films |
4:20 pm | Dick Weiss, Georgetown University | Photochemistry in Polymeric Media |
6:00 pm | Symposium banquet | |
8:00 pm | Sci-Mix multi-divisional poster session |
1:30 pm | Harry Gray, Caltech | Electron Transfer in Enzymes |
2:10 pm | Doug Neckers, Bowling Green State University | Step-Scan Transient IR |
2:50 pm | Intermission | Supramolecular Photochemistry |
3:00 pm | Dave Eaton, DuPont iTechnologies | Industrial Photochemistry |
3:40 pm | Jim Yardley, Allied-Signal/Columbia University | Laser Photochemistry |
4:20 pm | Eve Menger | Life of a Photochemist |
5:00 pm | George Hammond | Concluding Remarks |
Evening options: | ||
Dinner in the Gaslamp District | ||
6:30 pm | ACS Awards Reception, Banquet, Priestley Address | |
8:30 pm | "Oxygen" play by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffman |
Symposium Organizer: Carl C. Wamser, Portland State University ( WamserC@pdx.edu )
ACS Organic Division
DuPont
Eastman Kodak
Tropix/Applied Biosystems
Allied/Signal/Honeywell
Corning
Harold A. McMaster