William Jackson Pope

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Sir William Jackson Pope (born October 31, 1870 in London , † October 17, 1939 ) was a British chemist .

Life

After school, Pope studied at Finsbury Technical College and Central Technical College in South Kensington , where he worked for Henry Edward Armstrong . In 1897 he was appointed head of the chemistry department at Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute , before moving to the Municipal School of Technology in Manchester in 1901 .

In 1908, at the age of 38, he was offered a professorship in organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge . While there, he worked and researched in many areas such as mustard gas , camphor , organometallic chemistry and photosensitizers . However, he became best known for his work on optical activity .

The participants of the 2nd Solvay Conference 1913 (William Jackson Pope, back row, 3rd from right)

After he had already described the synthesis and dissolution of enantiomeric nitrogen compounds in 1899 , he repeated these experiments at the University of Cambridge with sulfur and selenium . In 1913 he was one of the participants in the 2nd Solvay Conference on "The Structure of Matter ". In 1914 he was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society , of which he was a member ( Fellow ) since 1902, the highest British honor for scientists in the field of chemistry because of his important contributions to structural and organic chemistry .

In 1919 he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree and from then on carried the nobility title "Sir". In 1924 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

For his scientific work, he was also awarded membership ( Freedom and Livery ) of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , one of the traditional English business associations within the City of London , and was their first overseer ( Prime Warden ) between 1928 and 1929 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Pope, Sir, William Jackson (1870-1939) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  2. ↑ Davy Medal Winners 1989-1900
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 5, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Pope, William Jackson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pope, Sir William Jackson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1939