American composer and chemist

Leonard Issacson

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American composer and chemist

Leonard Maxwell Isaacson (born 1925) is an American chemist and composer.

Isaacson 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.