Harry Julius Emeléus

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Harry Julius Emeléus (born June 22, 1903 in Battle , East Sussex , † December 2, 1993 in Cambridge , Cambridgeshire ) was a British chemist in the field of inorganic chemistry . As the founder of a school for inorganic chemistry at Cambridge University , he played a central role in this field in Great Britain .

Life

Emeléus was the son of a Huguenot pharmacist who immigrated from Finland . He graduated from Imperial College in 1923 and received his doctorate there in 1925. As a postdoctoral fellow he was with Alfred Stock at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , where he learned not only modern methods of preparative inorganic chemistry but also glass blowing . From 1929 to 1931 he worked with Hugh Taylor at Princeton University . From 1931 he was a lecturer and later a reader in inorganic chemistry at Imperial College in London and from 1945 until his retirement in 1970 professor at Cambridge University .

His 1938 textbook on inorganic chemistry, which he co-authored with John Stuart Anderson , presented the field under new, contemporary aspects and led to its revitalization in Great Britain.

In 1944 he worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Manhattan Project .

In 1946 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1958 CBE . From 1960 to 1962 he was President of the Chemical Society and from 1963 to 1965 President of the Royal Institute of Chemistry . From 1955 to 1960 he was President of the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry . In 1960 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1962 he received the Davy Medal .

He had been married to Catherine Horton since 1931 and had two sons and two daughters. From 1963 to 1972 he was a trustee of the British Museum .

Fonts

  • with JS Anderson: Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry, London, Routledge, 1938; 4th edition with AG Sharpe, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973
  • The chemistry of fluorine and its compounds, New York, Academic Press, 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry of Harry Emeléus at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Emeléus, Harry Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist (inorganic chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Battle , East Sussex
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1993
Place of death Cambridge