Otto Maass, was a Canadian

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 academic and scientist.

Born in New York City

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, New York

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, Maass started teaching at McGill University

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 in 1923 retiring in 1955. He was the Macdonald Professor of Chemistry and was chairman of the department of chemistry from 1937 to 1955.

In 1940, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society

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.In 1946, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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, he was awarded the Society's Henry Marshall Tory Medal

Henry Marshall Tory Medal

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in 1945. McGill University's Otto Maass Chemistry Building, built between 1964 and 1966, is named in his honour.