Hugh Stott Taylor

Sir
Hugh Stott Taylor
Born(1890-02-06)6 February 1890
St Helens, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Died17 April 1974(1974-04-17) (aged 84)
Princeton, New Jersey
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Spouse
Elizabeth Agnes Sawyer
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(m. 1919)​
Children2
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1](1932)
Remsen Award (1951)
Dean of
Princeton University Graduate School
In office
1945–1958
Preceded byLuther P. Eisenhart
Succeeded byDonald Ross Hamilton

Sir Hugh Stott Taylor KBE FRS (6 February 1890 – 17 April 1974) was an English chemist primarily interested in catalysis.[2] In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalysed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centres.[3] He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions.[1][4][5][6]

  1. ^ a b Kemball, C. (1975). "Hugh Stott Taylor 6 February 1890 -- 17 April 1974". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 21: 517–526. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1975.0017. S2CID 73005095.
  2. ^ Who Was Who, Published by A&C Black Limited
  3. ^ Taylor, H. S. (1925). "A Theory of the Catalytic Surface". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 108 (745): 105–111. Bibcode:1925RSPSA.108..105T. doi:10.1098/rspa.1925.0061.
  4. ^ "H. Taylor". Nature. 251 (5472): 266. 1974. Bibcode:1974Natur.251Q.266.. doi:10.1038/251266b0.
  5. ^ (1975) Chem. Brit., 11, 370–371.
  6. ^ Biographical sketch at Princeton Archived 12 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine