Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Norman Hinshelwood

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (born June 19, 1897 in London , † October 9, 1967 ibid) was a British chemist .

life and work

Hinshelwood studied at the Westminster City School and later at Balliol College of Oxford University , where he also received his doctorate . During the First World War he worked in an explosives factory. Between 1921 and 1937 he was a lecturer at Trinity College . In 1937 he became professor of chemistry at Oxford University.

Since 1929 he was a member of the Royal Society , which he chaired between 1955 and 1960 as President. The Royal Society awarded him in 1947 with the Royal Medal and 1962 with the Copley Medal from. In 1948 he was raised to the nobility and received the Order of Merit in 1960 . He was also president of the Chemical Society , the Faraday Society and, from 1959, a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In 1951 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1958 to the then Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1960 to the National Academy of Sciences , 1961 to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and 1963 to the American Philosophical Society .

His areas of work included kinetic studies of chemical reactions , especially the formation of water from the elements . Together with Harold Warris Thompson he investigated the explosion reaction of hydrogen with oxygen and described the phenomenon of the chain reaction . For this work he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956 together with Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Semjonow . In the further course he investigated the chemical changes in bacterial cells that were later of great use in antibiotic research. He published a. a. the books The Chemical Kinetics of the Bacterial Cell (1946) and Growth, Function and Regulation in Bacterial Cells (1966).

The Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism , which describes the reaction of two starting materials on a catalyst surface, and the Lindemann-Hinshelwood mechanism are named after him .

Hinshelwood was never married. He spoke several languages fluently. His hobbies included painting, Chinese pottery, and foreign language literature.

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1967 of December 11, 1967, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

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↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Cyril Hinshelwood at academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th
↑ Member entry of Sir Cyril Hinshelwood at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
^ Member History: Cyril N. Hinshelwood. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 30, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British chemist and Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	October 9, 1967
Place of death	London