Harold Hartley (chemist)

Sir Harold Brewer Hartley
Hartley at the White House in 1936
Born(1878-09-03)3 September 1878
London, England
Died9 September 1972(1972-09-09) (aged 94)
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Known for"physical and mineralogical chemistry, including electrical conductivity, ionisation, and electrolytic equilibria in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions"[2]
AwardsWilhelm Exner Medal (1937)
Hoover Medal (1968)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical chemistry, mineralogical chemistry
InstitutionsBalliol College, Oxford
Doctoral advisorSir John Conroy[1]
Doctoral studentsE. J. Bowen[1]
Cyril Hinshelwood
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Brigadier-General Sir Harold Brewer Hartley GCVO, CH, CBE, MC, FRS[2] (3 September 1878 – 9 September 1972) was a British physical chemist. He moved from academia to important positions in business and industry, including serving as Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation.

  1. ^ a b "Academic Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" (PDF). North Dakota State University, USA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b Ogston, A. G. (1973). "Harold Brewer Hartley 1878–1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 19: 348–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1973.0014.