British chemist born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, who developed the theory of the photochemical reaction. and who won a quarter of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1967) for studies of rapid chemical reactions, along with and with the British George Porter (1920-2002) of the Royal Institution of Great Britain London, United Kingdom, which also won 1/4 of the prize, and the German Manfred Eigen (1927- ), from the Max-Planck-Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Göttingen, who received half of the award.
A graduate of the Perse Grammar School (1910), he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to study the Natural Sciences, but was drafted (1916) to serve at the Royal Field Artillery in France. Taken prisoner (1918), taken to Germany and repatriated (1919). He returned to Emmanuel College, initially as a student and later as a Fellow Demonstrator (1925-1930). Humphrey Owen Jones Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, and Professorship (1937) and Director of the Department of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge University (1937-1965). Retired (1965) as Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University and died at Cambridge.
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