Harry Julius Emeléus
Harry Julius Emeléus
inorganic chemist and a professor in the department of chemistry, Cambridge University.[2]
Early life
Emeléus was born in
Queen's University of Belfast.[2]
Emeléus was educated at St Leonards Collegiate School, Hastings, and
University of Karlsruhe as a student of Alfred Stock and two years at Princeton University with Professor Hugh Stott Taylor.[2] Among his many students and research colleagues, notable are Norman Greenwood, Ken McTaggart and F. Gordon A. Stone
.
Career
Emeléus served as president of the inorganic chemistry division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (1955–60). He was also president of the Chemical Society (1958–60) and of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (1963–5).[2]
Awards
- Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1932)
- Tilden Lecture to the Chemical Society(1942)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1946)[1]
- Liversidge Award (1954)
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker(1954)
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire(1958)
- Davy Medal of the Royal Society (1962)
- Henri Moissan prize for fluorine chemistry, Germany (1991)
- Société Chimique de France(French Chemical Society)
Death
Emeléus died of heart failure at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 2 December 1993. He was survived by his four children, his wife having predeceased him in January 1991.[2]
References
- ^ S2CID 71411314.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51869. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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