Edmund Hirst

Edmund Hirst
Sir Edmund Langley Hirst, FRS
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Born
Edmund Langley Hirst

(1898-07-21)21 July 1898
Died29 October 1975(1975-10-29) (aged 77)[2]
Alma materUniversity of St Andrews
Spouses
  • Beda Winifred Phoebe Ramsay,
  • Kathleen (Kay) Jenny Harrison
AwardsTilden Prize (1939)
Davy Medal (1948)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Doctoral studentsSir Geoff Palmer

Sir Edmund Langley Hirst CBE FRS[1] FRSE (21 July 1898 – 29 October 1975), was a British chemist.[3]

  1. ^ a b Stacey, M.; Percival, E. (1976). "Edmund Langley Hirst 21 July 1898 -- 29 October 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 22: 136. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1976.0006.
  2. ^ Stacey, Maurice (2004). "Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley (1898–1975)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31238.
  3. ^ Records of the Department of Chemistry Archived 23 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine University of Edinburgh. Accessed March 2007