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Andrew Streitwieser, 94, of Berkeley, California, died Feb. 23, 2022.

Andrew Streitwieser.
Credit: Courtesy of Charles L. Perrin and Yeong-Joon Kim
Andrew Streitwieser

“Andy published his first paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society while still in high school. After completing a PhD with William von Eggers Doering and a postdoctoral fellowship with John D. Roberts, Andy began a lifetime career at the University of California, Berkeley, staying active after retirement in 1993. He measured hydrocarbon acidities and deuterium kinetic isotope effects. He wrote an influential review on solvolysis and a book on molecular orbital theory, and he cowrote the widely used textbook Introduction to Organic Chemistry. He received numerous American Chemical Society awards and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.”—Charles L. Perrin, former postdoctoral mentee

Most recent title: Emeritus professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Education: BA, chemistry, 1948, and PhD, physical organic chemistry, 1952, Columbia University

Survivors: Children, David Streitwieser and Susan Anders; one granddaughter; two great-grandchildren

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