George Wallace Kenner

George Wallace Kenner FRS (16 November 1922 – 26 June 1978) was a British organic chemist.[1] He was born in Sheffield in 1922, the son of Prof. James Kenner. During his childhood, he went to Didsbury Preparatory School in 1928 and moved to Manchester Grammar School in 1934. He was appointed to the first Heath Harrison Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Liverpool 1957–1976. He did his MSc and PhD degrees under Lord Todd at Manchester and Cambridge Universities in UK. He married Jillian Bird in 1951 and they had two daughters both born in Cambridge. He was faculty member at the Cambridge University for 15 years before moving to the University of Liverpool in 1957 as Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry.

  1. ^ Lord A. R. Todd (1979). George Wallace Kenner. 16 November 1922 – 26 June 1978. Source: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 25, pp. 390–420. URL https://www.jstor.org/stable/769853