Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Born(1897-11-09)9 November 1897
Cambridge, England
Died7 June 1978(1978-06-07) (aged 80)
Cambridge, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forFlash photolysis
Norrish reaction
Trommsdorff–Norrish effect
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisRadiation and chemical reactivity (1924)
Doctoral advisorEric Rideal[1]

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS[1] (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ a b c Dainton, F.; Thrush, B. A. (1981). "Ronald George Wreyford Norrish. 9 November 1897-7 June 1978". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27: 379–424. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0016. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 72584163.
  2. ^ Norrish's Nobel Foundation biography
  3. ^ Norrish's Nobel Lecture Some Fast Reactions in Gases Studied by Flash Photolysis and Kinetic Spectroscopy
  4. ^ Ronald George Wreyford Norrish publications indexed by Microsoft Academic