Keith U. Ingold
Keith Usherwood Ingold (born May 31, 1929 in Leeds ) is a British - Canadian chemist . He is known for research into free radical chemistry .
Life
Keith Usherwood Ingold is the son of British chemist Christopher K. Ingold and chemist Dr. Hilda Usherwood. He studied at the University of London with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1949 and at Oxford University , where he received his doctorate in 1951 under Cyril Hinshelwood . He then went to Canada, where he worked for the National Research Council (NRC) and was a post-doctoral student at the University of British Columbia . He then worked again for the NRC, where he headed the Free Radical Chemistry Department. He is a Distinguished Scientist at the Steacie Institute of Molecular Science.
He later looked at antioxidants like vitamin E , which scavenge free radicals, their role in aging and cancer. His research also had applications in the petroleum industry.
He has published over 550 scientific papers.
Honors and memberships
- 1968 Petroleum Chemistry Award
- 1985 Henry Marshall Tory Medal
- 1988 Linus Pauling Award
- 1990 Davy Medal
- 1993 James Flack Norris Award
- 1998 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
- 2000 Royal Medal
- Centennial Medal
- Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
He is Officer of the Order of Canada (1995), Fellow of the Royal Society , the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
Ingold has nine honorary doctorates (Guelph, Mount Allison, St. Andrews, Carleton, McMaster, Dalhousie).
Fonts
- with BP Roberts Free-radical substitution reactions , Wiley-Interscience 1971
Web links
- Literature by and about Keith U. Ingold in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography at a conference Organic Free Radicals on his 80th birthday, Ottawa 2009 ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Keith U. Ingold at academictree.org, accessed on February 13, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ingold, Keith U. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ingold, Keith Usherwood (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Canadian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds |