Robert A. Shaw
Robert A. Shaw (born November 2, 1924 in Vienna ) is a British chemist of Austrian descent.
Life
Robert Arthur Shaw was born in Vienna as Robert Arthur Schlesinger into a wealthy Jewish family; his grandfather Robert Schlesinger traded in luxury shoes. After the “ Anschluss ” in 1938, the family was expropriated and several family members were murdered in concentration camps. Fourteen-year-old Robert Schlesinger came to England on July 5, 1939 on a Kindertransport . Initially he worked in agriculture in Suffolk and later as a bicycle messenger and lathe operator in London . He volunteered for the army and served with the Royal Fusiliers in Asia, including India and Burma , during World War II.
After the war he studied chemistry from 1947 to 1953 and was then employed at Birkbeck College at the University of London , where he was appointed lecturer in 1956 and professor in 1965. His main research area was nitrogen - phosphorus analogs of organic carbon compounds , so-called phosphazenes . He is an honorary doctor of the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse and the Technical University of Gebze . In 2018 he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna .
Web links
- Austrian Presidential Office : Sub auspiciis doctorate and honorary doctorate to Robert A. Shaw and Isaac P. Witz
- Revista Ingenería Global Mayor: Professor Robert A Shaw
- University of Vienna: Dies Academicus 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard A. Hawkins: Paprika Schlesinger: The development of a luxury retail shoe brand in Belle Époque, Vienna , Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 9,1 (2017), doi: 10.1108 / JHRM-10-2015-0043
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shaw, Robert A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shaw, Robert Arthur; Schlesinger, Robert Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |