Catalogue description Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of SIR CYRIL NORMAN HINSHELWOOD OM, FRS (1897-1967)

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Details of CSAC 17.11.74
Reference: CSAC 17.11.74
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

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Date: 1919-1973
Held by: Royal Society, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hinshelwood, Sir, Cyril Norman, 1897-1967, Knight, scientist and physical chemist

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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