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Leonard Isaacson

American chemist and composer (1925-2018)

Leonard Maxwell Isaacson (December 15, 1925, July 1, 2018) was an American chemist and composer.

Isaacson was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 15, 1925. He collaborated with Lejaren Hiller on the computer-programmed acoustic composition, Illiac Suite (1957). At the time, both composers were professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and used the university's room-size ILLIAC I. He died in Belvedere Tiburon, California on July 1, 2018, at the age of 92.

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