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Catalogue description Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of SIR CYRIL NORMAN HINSHELWOOD OM, FRS (1897-1967)
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| Reference: | CSAC 17.11.74 |
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| Title: | Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of SIR CYRIL NORMAN HINSHELWOOD OM, FRS (1897-1967) |
| Description: |
It consists almost entirely of laboratory notebooks and experimental observations and results covering the early period of Hinshelwood's work on molecular reactions and gas reactions. Most of this work was conducted in the former laboratory shared by Balliol and Trinity Colleges, consisting, as Sir Harold Thompson describes in his Memoir (Item 1), of cellars, out-houses and a converted bathroom. Section III contains notes and reports of work on respirator design undertaken by Hinshelwood and his research team for the Chemical Defence Board, Ministry of Supply, during the Second World War. Official documents relating to this work were returned to the P.R.O. Some of Hinshelwood's papers were accepted and listed by the Library of the Royal Society after his death. They consist of certificates and records of honours and awards, reprints of scientific and non-scientific writings, photographs and press-cuttings, and a box of uncatalogued manuscript material. Dr. C.J. Danby, of the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, has given valuable help in the dating and attribution of certain items in the collection. I. Biographical 1 - 2 II. Laboratory notebooks and working papers 3 - 28 III. War work 29 - 45 |
| Note: |
Compiled by Jeannine Alton and Harriot Weiskittel " |
| Date: | 1919-1973 |
| Held by: | Royal Society, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 12.66 linear feet |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The collection was received from the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
1897 b. London 1916 - 18 Department of Explosives, Queensferry Royal Ordinance Factory 1919 Entered Balliol College, Oxford 1920 - 21 Fellow of Balliol College 1921 - 64 Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford 1929 Elected to the Royal Society 1937 - 64 Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry, Oxford 1943 Davy Medal 1946 Bakerian Lecture 1946 - 47 President, Chemical Society 1949 Royal Medal 1948 Knight Bachelor 1955 - 60 President, Royal Society 1956 Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1959 President, Classical Association 1960 Presidential Address, Royal Society Tercentenary 1960 Leverhulme Medal 1960 Order of Merit 1961 - 63 President, Faraday Society 1962 Copley Medal 1964 - 65 President, British Association for the Advancement of Science |
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