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  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM FRS (June 19, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an English physical chemist.
With Nikolay Semenov of the USSR, Hinshelwood was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956 for his researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions.
Sir Cyril was President of the Chemical Society and of the Faraday Society, and gained many awards and honorary degrees.
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 BookRags: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Sir Biography
Cyril Hinshelwood was born in London on June 19, 1897, the only child of an accountant who died in 1904.
Hinshelwood won a scholarship to Oxford but was unable to accept it because of World War I. He became a chemist at an explosives factory at Queensferry, Scotland, and 2 years later he was appointed assistant chief laboratory chemist.
Hinshelwood's lifelong preoccupation with the energetics and rates of chemical reactions may be traced to his work of testing explosives at Queensferry.
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 BookRags: Cyril N. Hinshelwood Biography
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was born on June 19, 1897, in London, England, to Norman MacMillan Hinshelwood, an accountant, and Ethel Smith Hinshelwood.
Hinshelwood entered Oxford in 1919, becoming a fellow of Balliol in 1920 and a fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1921.
By the late 1930s Hinshelwood had shifted the focus of his research to decipher the mechanisms of bacterial growth with the tools of chemical kinetics.
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 Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman
Hinshelwood was born in London and studied at Oxford, where he became professor in 1937.
Studying gas reactions and the decomposition of solid substances in the presence and absence of catalysts, Hinshelwood went on to demonstrate that many reactions can be explained in terms of a series – a chain – of interdependent stages.
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 Sir Norman Foster - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Foster, Norman Robert, born in 1935, British architect who received the Pritzker Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture, in 1999....
Sir Norman Foster, a 63-year-old architect from the United Kingdom, won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize on April 11, 1999.
The $100,000 award and a bronze medallion were to be presented to Foster on June 7 in Berlin, Germany, where the architect recently completed a renovation of the...
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 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956 - Presentation Speech
The Nobel Prize which is now to be given to Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Academician Nikolai Nikolaevic Semenov "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions" reminds us of the very first Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was awarded in 1901 to the Dutchman Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff.
This important reaction was studied both by Hinshelwood and his team in Oxford and by Semenov and his team in Leningrad.
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Academician Nikolai Nikolaevic Semenov.
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 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood info here at en.43of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
His subsequent grindstone on synthetical changes in the bacterial germ proved to be of large-scale combination caliber in posterior quest grindstone on antibiotics and therapeutic agents, and their book, The Chemical Kinetics of the Bacterial Cell was exhibited in 1946, postdated by Growth, Function and Regulation in Bacterial Cells in 1966.
With Nikolay Semenov of the USSR, Hinshelwood was jointly golded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956 for their researches into the jobby of synthetical reactions.
Sir Cyril was President of the Chemical Society and of the Faraday Society, and gravyed small number awards and honorary degrees.
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 Cyril, - Saint Cyril - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cyril was dropped off at Twice Sold Tales when he was not even 6 weeks old.
Cyril began his career as Bishop of Alexandria by showing himself to be an ill-tempered,
Cyril Lani Pahinui was born April 21, 1950.
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 Cyril Ramaphosa - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ramaphosa, Cyril, born in 1952, South African lawyer, trade union leader, and activist.
Burt, Sir Cyril Ludowic, full name Cyril Ludowic Burt (1883-1971), British educational psychologist, noted for his contributions to the use of...
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 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Hinshelwood obtained his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1924 and became professor of chemistry there in 1937.
About 1930 Hinshelwood began investigating the complex reaction in which hydrogen and oxygen atoms combine to form water.
He showed that the products of this reaction help to spread the reaction further in what is essentially a chain reaction.
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 AIM25: Royal Society: Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman (1897-1967)
Administrative/Biographical history: Hinshelwood was born in London and educated at Westminster City School.
Hinshelwood's scientific research was in chemical kinetics, and bacterial growth.
Hinshelwood was elected FRS in 1929 (Bakerian Lecture 1946, Davy Medal 1942, Royal Medal 1947, Leverhulme Medal 1960, Copley Medal 1962) and in 1956 he shared with N.N. Semenov the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their researches into the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
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 The UCL Periodic Table of the Lecturers: B Topley
His PhD was on the kinetics of decomposition of formic acid in the gas phase.
HINSHELWOOD, C. Influence of Temperature on Two Alternative Modes of Decomposition of Formic Acid.
HINSHELWOOD, C. Energy of Activation in Heterogeneous Gas Reactions With Relation to the Thermal Decomposition of Formic Acid Vapor.
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 Media Review
While this may not be the most physically attractive or colorful of electrochemistry texts, it is possibly a high ranker and the weighty feel suggests a comprehensive text.
This lecture series, named after Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1956), which is held annually at the University of Oxford, gives the invited speaker an opportunity to present his or her work in the area of physical chemistry to a general chemistry audience.
The author was the Hinshelwood lecturer in 1998, presenting a series of lectures entitled “Broadening Electrochemical Horizons,” which were aimed at illustrating the principles and applications of electrochemical methodology.
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 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Information Center - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Information Center - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Hinshelwood was born in London on 19 June 1897; his parents were Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethe Frances née Smith.
He was a tutor at Trinity College from 1921 to 1937 and was Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Oxford from 1937.
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 Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman
Hinshelwood spent his professional life at Oxford (England), where he obtained a doctorate (1924) and a professorship of chemistry (1937).
He served as president of the Chemical Society (1955-1960).
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