Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson
Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson (12 February 1926 – 11 November 2016) was a British
academic administrator
.
Biography
Trotman-Dickenson was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire on 12 February 1926. His father, Edward Newton Trotman-Dickenson was a cotton merchant and his mother was Violet Murray, née Nicoll. He attended Winchester College and continued to study Chemistry with a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford in 1948.[1]
He was
On 11 July 1953 he married economist, Donata Irena (Danusia) Hewell and they had three children together. He died on 11 November 2016, at his home in Siston Court as a result of heart failure.[1]
Honours
In the
Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.[7]
In 1963, Trotman-Dickenson was the Tilden Lecturer for the
Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Wales.[5]
Selected works
- Trotman-Dickenson, A. F. (1955). Gas kinetics. Butterworth's Scientific Publications. ISBN 978-1114643048.
- Trotman-Dickenson, A. F. (1959). Free radicals: An introduction. New York: Wiley.
- Trotman-Dickenson, A. F.; Milne, G. S. (1967). Tables of Bimolecular Gas Reactions. National Bureau of Standards. Bibcode:1967tbgr.book.....T.
- Bailar, J. C.; Trotman-Dickenson, A. F., eds. (1973). Comprehensive inorganic chemistry. Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 978-0080172750.
References
- ^ a b Smith, Brian (9 January 2020). "Dickenson, Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman- (1926–2016)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson". cardiff.ac.uk. Cardiff University. 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ "Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson, scientist and university administrator – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ Grove, Jack (1 December 2016). "Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson, 1926-2016". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ a b "TROTMAN-DICKENSON, Sir Aubrey (Fiennes)". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ "No. 51772". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1989. pp. 1–2.
- ^ "No. 52009". The London Gazette. 5 January 1990. p. 221.
- ^ "Tilden Prizes Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
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