Andrew Streitwieser

Andrew Streitwieser
Born	1927 Buffalo, New York
Nationality	US
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	Columbia College, B.S. Columbia University, Ph.D. MIT, Post Doc.
Doctoral advisor	William von Eggers Doering
Other academic advisors	John D. Roberts
Doctoral students	Peter J. Stang
Influenced	Roy A. Periana

Andrew Streitwieser (born 1927) is an American chemist known for his contributions to physical organic chemistry.

Streitwieser was born in 1927 in Buffalo, New York and he grew up in New York City. He attended Columbia College and then Columbia University where he earned a PhD in the research group of William von Eggers Doering in 1952. He then was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of John D. Roberts at MIT. He has been Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley since 1953.

Streitwieser was one of the pioneers of molecular orbital theory and his book Molecular Orbital Theory for Organic Chemists had a lasting impact on the field. His Chemical Reviews article titled "Solvolytic Displacement Reactions at Saturated Carbon" was influential in the field of physical organic chemistry. Streitwieser is also the author of the university textbooks Introduction to Organic Chemistry () and Progress in Physical Organic Chemistry () as well as the autobiography A Lifetime of Synergy With Theory and Experiment ()

Streitwieser was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1969 and is an American Chemical Society Fellow. His is the recipient of the ACS Award in Petroleum Chemistry (1967), James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry (1982), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1968), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1989), and the Roger Adams Award (2009).

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