Morris Sugden
Sir Theodore Morris Sugden (born December 31, 1919 in Triangle near Sowerby Bridge , West Yorkshire , † January 3, 1984 ) was an English chemist ( physical chemistry ).
Morris Sugden was the son of a clerk in a mill (Frederick Morris Sugden). The family went through tough times during the Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Sugden studied from 1938 Chemistry at Jesus College of the University of Cambridge . He became a Reader in Cambridge and in 1964 Director of the Shell Thornton Research Center in Chester (Chief Executive of Shell Research). From 1976 he was back at Cambridge as a Masters from Trinity Hall, which he remained until his death in 1984.
In 1975 he received the Davy Medal . In the same year he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He had been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1963 and became its Physical Secretary in 1978. In 1979, as chairman of a study group at the Royal Society, he published a report on air pollution and in 1983 a book on CFCs in the atmosphere.
He dealt with combustion processes in gases. The Combustion Institute's Sugden Award is named in his honor. He was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as Commander in 1975 and knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 1893 .
Fonts
- with CE Kenney: Microwave Spectroscopy of Gases. 1965.
literature
- CP Quinn, BA Trush: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Volume 32, 1986, p. 570, first page, JSTOR
- BA Trush: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 237.
- ^ Sugden, Chlorofluorocarbons in the Environment: The Aerosol Controversy, Ellis Horwood 1980
- ^ Sugden Award
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sugden, Morris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sugden, Theodore Morris (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist (physical chemistry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Triangle at Sowerby Bridge , West Yorkshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd January 1984 |