Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ( 1897 - 1967 )

Birth: London, England (19 June 1897) Death: London, England (09 October 1967) Research Field: Chemistry Education: Early education in Toronto (-c.1904); Westminster City School; Brackenbury Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford but did not take it up due to commencement of WW1; Balliol College, Oxford (1919 - 1920); awarded Goldsmiths Exhibition, Balliol (1919); MA (Oxon) Career: Department of Explosives, Queensferry, Royal Ordnance Factory (1916-1918) left as Deputy Chief Chemist; Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (1920-1921); Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford (1921-1964); links with research groups at ICI, Alkali Division, Northwich and Dyestuffs Division, Blackley (1933 - 1965); Delegate of Oxford University Press (1934 -1967); Dr Lee's Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford (1937-1964), professorship linked to Exeter College; Chemical Defence Board of the Ministry of Supply (1940-1945) - Respirator Sub Committee; Chemical Advisory Board (1946-1948, 1949-1952) - Chairman of Defence Equipment Committee (1948-1951), Chairman of Committee on Pyrotechnics, Initiators, Fuses and Incendiaries, Committee of Propellants and Internal Ballistics; Liquid Fuels Committee of the Munitions Chemistry Advisory Board; Fuel Research Council of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Coal Research Board; Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Committee of Ministry of Supply; awarded US Medal for Freedom (1947) for his war work; Boyle Lecture (1949); member of Gas Council research committee (1950); admitted to freedom and livery of Goldsmiths Company without fine or fees (30 April 1952); gave Fourth Coal Science Lecture on 'The Carbon of Coal' (1955); served on Courtauld Foundation grants committee and Leverhulme Trusts grants committee; Italian Order of Merit (1956); President of Classical Association (1959); on Council of Assistants of Goldsmiths Company (1960); 15th Eddington Memorial Lecturer (1961); Society of Chemical Industry Medal (1961); Trustee of the British Museum (1963); Chairman of the Council of Queen Elizabeth College, London (1964-1967); President of British Association for the Advancement of Science (1964-1965); retired from Oxford (1964); chairman of education committee of Goldsmiths Company (1964); President of Oxford Branch of Modern Languages Association; President of Science Masters Association; awarded Faraday Medal and Longstaff Medal by Chemical Society; awarded Medal of Society of Chemical Industry; Honorary Foreign Member of Accademia del Lincei, Accademia dei XL, Pontifical Academy in Rome, Academy of Science, USA, Spanish Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York Academy, Bologna Academy, Ligurian Academy; held exhibition of his oil paintings at Goldsmiths Hall (20 March 1968); Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College; served on Standing Committee for Museums and Galleries; served on Advisory Committee of the National Gallery Honours: Kt 1948; OM 1960 Memberships: FCS - President 1946-1947; Faraday Society - President 1961-1963 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 2/05/1929 Medals/Prizes: Davy Medal 1942; Royal Medal 1947; Leverhulme Medal 1960; Copley Medal 1962; Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1956 - jointly with N N Semenov Lectures: Bakerian 1946; Faraday 1952 Council: Council 1933-1934, 1949-1950; For Sec 1950-1955; PRS 1955-1960.