Queen’s chemist ‘never lost that child-like joy in discovering something new’

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By Sharon Oosthoek Victor Snieckus’s colleagues used to joke that if you wanted to track him down, you had to go to the airport. A highly respected synthetic organic chemist, the late Emeritus Bader Chair of Chemistry at Queen’s University was such a sought-after international speaker and collaborator that he was constantly criss-crossing the globe.