W. Dean Harman

Freitag, 04. November 1960

Walter (W.) Dean Harman is an American chemist, academic, author and researcher. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. Harman's research primarily focuses on organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry. He has also worked extensively in the area of dearomatization, and has developed new chemical tools based on tungsten, osmium, rhenium, and molybdenum that are designed to manipulate organic molecules in new ways. He is also the co-author of a textbook for general chemistry with Professor Gordon Yee, entitled Thinkwell Chemistry.