Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish | |
Born | October 9, 1897 Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Died | June 7, 1978 (aged 80) Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Institutions | Cambridge University |
Alma mater | Cambridge University |
Doctoral advisor | Eric Keightley Rideal |
Known for | Norrish reaction |
Notable awards | 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.
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Preceded by Robert S. Mulliken |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry with: Manfred Eigen and George Porter 1967 |
Succeeded by Lars Onsager |
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