Cyril N. Hinshelwood
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Harold Hartley | |
Doctoral students | Sydney Brenner Alan Eddy |
Other notable students | Keith J. Laidler (postdoc) |
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Education
Born in London, his parents were Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethel Frances née Smith. He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small flat in Chelsea where he lived for the rest of his life. He then studied at Westminster City School and Balliol College, Oxford.
Career
During the
His early studies of molecular
The Langmuir-Hinshelwood process in heterogeneous catalysis, in which the adsorption of the reactants on the surface is the rate-limiting step, is named after him. He was a senior research fellow at Imperial College London from 1964 to 1967.
Awards and honours
In addition to being named the second Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, Hinshelwood was elected
Hinshelwood was president of the Chemical Society, the Royal Society,[1] the Classical Association, and the Faraday Society, and received numerous awards and honorary degrees.[citation needed]
Personal life
Hinshelwood never married. He was fluent in seven classical and modern languages and his main hobbies were painting, collecting Chinese pottery, and foreign literature. As an artist, Hinshelwood painted scenes in Oxford, as well as portraits of Oxford University people including
He died, at home, on 9 October 1967. In 1968, his Nobel Prize medal was sold by his estate to a collector, who then sold it in 1976 for $15,000.[14] In 2017, his Nobel Prize medal was sold at auction for $128,000.[15]
See also
References
- ^ S2CID 12385145.
- ^ Hinshelwood Archives at the Royal Society
- ^ Cyril N. Hinshelwood on Nobelprize.org
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- PMID 15209074.
- ^ "Cyril Norman Hinshelwood". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "Cyril Hinshelwood". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Harold Hartley (1878–1972) - Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "Herbert E. D. Blakiston (1862–1942), President of Trinity College - Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "The Dolphin Yard Laboratory". artuk.org. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "The Observatory Gardens, The Parks, Oxford". artuk.org. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "Michael Seakins - Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ "Nashua Telegraph". 8 March 1976. p. 20.
- ^ Watson, Norman. "Scientists prize-winning work revealed by rare Nobel medal". Retrieved 17 March 2024.
External links
- Cyril N. Hinshelwood on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture on 11 December 1956 Chemical Kinetics in the Past Few Decades