Charles Harington (chemist)

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Charles Robert Harington
Born(1897-08-01)1 August 1897
Llanerfyl, Wales
Died4 February 1972(1972-02-04) (aged 74)
Mill Hill, London, England
Known forSynthesising thyroxine
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry

Sir Charles Robert Harington, KBE, FRS[1] (1 August 1897 – 4 February 1972) was a chemist, best known for synthesising thyroxine.

  1. ^ Himsworth, Harold; Pitt-Rivers, Rosalind (1972). "Charles Robert Harington. 1897-1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 18: 266–308. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1972.0009. JSTOR 769662. PMID 11615748. S2CID 31136079.