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  • USC Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Sidney W. Benson served as a group leader for the Manhattan Project, then joined the Department of Chemistry in USC Dornsife in 1943. Here, he works in his laboratory in 1984. Photo by Wendy Rosin Malecki courtesy of USC University Archives.

    In Memoriam: Sidney W. Benson, 93

    January 4, 2012

    USC Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Sidney W. Benson, who became scientific co-director of USC Dornsife’s Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute when it opened in 1977, has died. He was 93. Among the… more>

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