Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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| Ronald George Wreyford Norrish | |
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| Born | October 9 1897 Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Died | June 7 1978 (aged 80) Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Institutions | Cambridge University |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Academic advisor | Eric Keightley Rideal |
| Known for | Norrish reaction |
| Notable prizes | Image:Nobel Prize.png Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 |
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (November 9, 1897 – June 7, 1978) was a British chemist. He was born in Cambridge and attended The Perse School.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 along with Manfred Eigen and George Porter for their study of extremely fast chemical reactions. One of his accomplishments is the development of the Norrish reaction.
[edit] External links
- Norrish's Nobel Foundation biography
- Norrish's Nobel Lecture Some Fast Reactions in Gases Studied by Flash Photolysis and Kinetic Spectroscopy
[edit] References
- Frederick Dainton; B. A. Thrush (1981). "Ronald George Wreyford Norrish. 9 November 1897-7 June 1978". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 27: 379-424.
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Robert S. Mulliken | Nobel Prize in Chemistry with: Manfred Eigen and George Porter 1967 | Succeeded by Lars Onsager |
Nobel Laureates in Chemistry |
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Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) • Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) • Hermann Staudinger (1953) • Linus Pauling (1954) • Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) • Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) • Alexander Todd (1957) • Frederick Sanger (1958) • Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) • Willard Libby (1960) • Melvin Calvin (1961) • Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) • Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) • Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) • Robert Woodward (1965) • Robert S. Mulliken (1966) • Manfred Eigen / Norrish / George Porter (1967) • Lars Onsager (1968) • Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) • Luis Federico Leloir (1970) • Gerhard Herzberg (1971) • Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) • E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) • Paul Flory (1974) • John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975) |
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