Award-Winning Canadian Researcher Dies of Suspected Swine Flu

A 38-year-old internationally recognized chemistry professor at the University of Ottawa died last week of what is suspected to have been swine flu, as the H1N1 flu is commonly known. According to the Ottawa Citizen, Keith Fagnou held the university research chair in novel catalytic transformations, won the Polanyi Prize in Chemistry, and recently became the first Canadian to win the international OMCOS award, given every other year to an outstanding scientist under 40 in organometallic chemistry.