Roger Parsons

Roger Parsons (* 1926 in London ; † January 7, 2017 ) was a British chemist ( electrochemistry ).

Life

Parsons was the son of a master baker and went to school in London and Edmonton . He studied chemistry at Imperial College London , where he received his bachelor's degree with top marks in 1947 and his doctorate in electrochemistry in 1948 with John Bockris . He was a lecturer at Imperial College, went to the University of St. Andrews in Dundee (now the University of Dundee) in 1951 under Douglas Everett and followed this in 1954 to the University of Bristol , where he became a professor. In 1977 he became director of the Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Interfaciale of the CNRS in Meudon . From 1985 to 1992 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southampton .

In electrochemistry, he dealt with kinetics (particularly hydrogen development during electrolysis), adsorption processes, the use of optical methods in the investigation of processes at interfaces, electrocapillarity, processes on electrodes made of single crystals and the electrochemical double layer .

Parsons had been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1965 . In 2003 he received the Davy Medal . He was editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and received the Olin Palladium Medal from the Electrochemical Society. In 1991 he became President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Chemical Society.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roger Alder: Professor Roger Parsons, 1927-2017. University of Bristol, February 6, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017 .