The Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry is the named Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, established through an endowment of £36,000 in 1913 by the Hall family.[1] This chair has been occupied by the following chemists:
- 2014- David Alan Leigh[2] FRS
- 2005 - 2014 Ian Hillier
- 1947-1954 Sir Ewart Jones[3] FRS
- 1944-1947 Sir Edmund Hirst[4] FRS
- 1938-1944 Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd[5] FRS
- 1935-1938 Sir Ian Heilbron[6] FRS
- 1922-1935 Arthur Lapworth[7] FRS
References[edit]
- ^ Portrait of a University, 1851-1951: To Commemorate the Centenary of Manchester University, Henry Buckley Charlton, Manchester University Press, 1951.
- ^ "LEIGH, Prof. David Alan". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Jones, J. H. (2003). "Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones 16 March 1911 - 7 May 2002 Elected FRS 1950". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 49: 263. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0015. JSTOR 3650225.
- ^ Robinson, R. (1947). "Arthur Lapworth. 1872-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (15): 554. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0018.
- ^ Brown, D. M.; Kornberg, H. (2000). "Alexander Robertus Todd, O.M., Baron Todd of Trumpington. 2 October 1907 -- 10 January 1997: Elected F.R.S. 1942". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 46: 515. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0099.
- ^ Alan Cook (2004). "Heilbron, Sir Ian Morris [formerly Isidor Morris]". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33799.
- ^ Robinson, R. (1947). "Arthur Lapworth. 1872-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (15): 554. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0018.