Gilbert Thomas Morgan

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Sir Gilbert Thomas Morgan , OBE (born  October 20, 1872 in Essendon, Hertfordshire , †  February 1, 1940 in Richmond, Surrey ) was a British chemist . He was a professor at the Royal College of Science in Dublin , Finsbury Technical College and the University of Birmingham , and was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1933 to 1935 . As part of his research, for which he was admitted to the Royal Society , among other things, he devoted himself to diazo dyes , organometallic compounds and high-pressure reactions .

Life

Gilbert Thomas Morgan was born in Essendon in the county of Hertfordshire in 1872 and completed his training at Finsbury Technical College in Finsbury , among others with Silvanus Phillips Thompson and Raphael Meldola . He then worked for Read, Holliday, and Co. in Huddersfield for several years as an industrial chemist in the field of dye development and manufacture. He then went to the Royal College of Science in South Kensington for further studies , where he completed his training and, supported by William A. Tilden , received a position as a research assistant and later as an assistant professor in the chemistry department.

In 1912 he switched to a professorship in applied chemistry at the Royal College of Science in Dublin . Three years later, he succeeded Raphael Meldola as professor of chemistry at Finsbury Technical College before taking over the Mason professorship in chemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1919 . He gave up this position in 1925 in favor of a position as superintendent and from 1927 to 1937 as director of the Chemical Research Laboratory at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Teddington , a state-funded research institution founded in 1915 for industry-related research projects. From 1933 to 1935 he served as President of the Royal Society of Chemistry .

Gilbert Thomas Morgan died in 1940 in Richmond in the county of Surrey . In his estate he set up a memorial fund named after his parents Thomas Morgan and Mary-Louise Corday, from which the Royal Society of Chemistry finances the award of the Corday Morgan Prize , which has been awarded since 1949 .

Scientific work

Gilbert Thomas Morgan published more than 350 scientific publications and dealt in particular with the chemistry of aromatics , chemical analysis as well as stereo and complex chemistry . His research focused on dyes from the field of diazo compounds , organometallic compounds and reactions under high pressure . The cyclization for the synthesis of phenanthridine , known as the Morgan-Walls reaction , is named after him .

Awards

Gilbert Thomas Morgan was inducted into the Royal Society in 1915 and made a Knight Bachelor in 1936 . He was also an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and an honorary doctorate from several universities.

literature

  • James Colquhoun Irvine: Gilbert Thomas Morgan 1872–1940. In: Obituary Notes of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3/1941. Royal Society, pp. 354-362.
  • Sir Gilbert Thomas Morgan. In: Rudolf Werner Soukup and Andreas Schober: A library as eloquent witness to a comprehensive change in the scientific worldview. Part I: The authors of the works in the library of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in short biographies. Diploma thesis at the Vienna University of Technology , Vienna 2009, p. 245.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In LCAuth no2010129763 his year of birth is given as 1870. Query date: June 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Gilbert Thomas Morgan at academictree.org, accessed on January 3 of 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Gilbert Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Essendon (Hertfordshire)
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1940
Place of death Richmond, Surrey