{"id":6771,"date":"2023-10-18T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/chemistry\/?page_id=6771"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:45:14","slug":"otto-schnepp-1925-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/in-memoriam\/otto-schnepp-1925-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto Schnepp, 1925-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10119\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/12\/usc-chemistry-otto-schnepp-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Otto Schnepp\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/12\/usc-chemistry-otto-schnepp-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/12\/usc-chemistry-otto-schnepp-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/12\/usc-chemistry-otto-schnepp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/12\/usc-chemistry-otto-schnepp-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/12\/usc-chemistry-otto-schnepp-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/12\/usc-chemistry-otto-schnepp.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Otto Schnepp, a prominent molecular spectroscopist who joined the Department of Chemistry in 1965 died Jan. 2 at age 93. \u201cProfessor Schnepp played a major role in the growth of the Department of Chemistry at USC beginning in the 1960s, and will be greatly missed,\u201d said Surya Prakash, department chair. Professor Schnepp was instrumental in the department\u2019s hiring of Noble laureate Arieh Warshel in 1976 and served as department chair for several years beginning in 1989. Born in Vienna, Austria, Schnepp attended college in Shanghai, China, was fluent in five languages and served as science attach\u00e9 at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Published Obituaries and Tributes <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2942\/usc-emeritus-professor-otto-schnepp-obit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Memoriam: Otto Schnepp<\/a>&#8221; USC News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Schnepp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Schnepp<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"parent":2515,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6771","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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