Eric Rideal

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Sir Eric Keightley Rideal (born April 11, 1890 in Sydenham (London) , † September 25, 1974 in West Kensington, London ) was a British chemist. He dealt with physical chemistry , colloid chemistry , surface chemistry and catalysis .

Life

He was the son of the chemist Samuel Rideal (1863-1929), known for a test for water disinfection named after him and JT Ainslie Walker. He studied from 1907 on a scholarship at the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall) with a bachelor's degree in 1910 and then in Aachen and at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1912 under Richard Anschütz . He then had his own laboratory, worked in his father's field and was in Ecuador in 1913 for water analysis. He served with the Artists Rifles during World War I and with the Royal Engineers (water supply) on the Somme in 1916, but fell ill and then spent the remainder of the war doing research on catalysis at University College London(under Frederick G. Donnan ), about which a book by himself and Hugh Stott Taylor appeared in 1919 . In 1919 he was visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was then lecturer in physical chemistry at Cambridge, where he became professor of colloid chemistry and physics in 1930. He founded the Colloid Science Laboratory there.

In 1936 he had to undergo an operation for colon cancer, which is why he renounced the candidacy for the 1937 vacant Chair of Physical Chemistry in Cambridge.

From 1946 to 1949 he was Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution and Director of the Davy Faraday Laboratory and from 1950 until his retirement in 1955 at King's College London . Then was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London and wrote another book on catalysis.

The Eley-Rideal mechanism of catalysis is named after him and DD Eley.

In 1951 he received the Davy Medal and in 1951 he gave the Bakerian Lecture (On reactions in monolayers). In 1951 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor for services in World War II for the Ministry of Supply (he researched fuels, explosives, etc.) and in 1918 he was accepted as a member of the Order of the British Empire for services in the First World War . From 1930 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1947 he gave the Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures on chemical reactions. Rideal has received several honorary doctorates (Bonn, Turin, Belfast, Birmingham, Brunel University, Dublin). From 1938 to 1945 he was President of the Faraday Society, 1945/46 of the Society of Chemical Industry and 1950 to 1952 of the Chemical Society.

He was one of the founders and editors of Advances in Catalysis magazine .

His students included CP Snow , who portrayed him in several novels, and Nobel Prize winner Ronald GW Norrish .

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SURNAME Rideal, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rideal, Sir Eric Keightley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydenham (London)
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1974
Place of death West Kensington, London