Alexander Senning

1936

**Alexander Senning** (born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia). He studied chemistry at Munich, Germany (1954–1959) and Uppsala, Sweden (1960–1962). He obtained a PhD in organic chemistry from Uppsala University (1962), joined the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark as assistant professor (1962-1965) and served as associate professor during 1965–1993. During a sabbatical leave (1973–1975) he was head of the research laboratory of the drug company A/S Alfred Benzon, Copenhagen, Denmark. He joined the Danish Engineering Academy (DIA), Lyngby, Denmark, later part of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, as professor of organic chemistry in 1993, until his retirement in 2003. Senning’s research interests include organic sulfur chemistry and medicinal chemistry. He has been intensively involved as a journal and handbook editor.

• Elsevier's dictionary of chemoetymology
• Sulfur in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Volume 3
• Sulfur in organic and inorganic chemistry
• Sulfur Reports 13#2