William Jackson Pope
Sir William Jackson Pope (born October 31, 1870 in London , † October 17, 1939 ) was a British chemist .
Life
After school, Pope studied at Finsbury Technical College and Central Technical College in South Kensington , where he worked for Henry Edward Armstrong . In 1897 he was appointed head of the chemistry department at Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute , before moving to the Municipal School of Technology in Manchester in 1901 .
In 1908, at the age of 38, he was offered a professorship in organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge . While there, he worked and researched in many areas such as mustard gas , camphor , organometallic chemistry and photosensitizers . However, he became best known for his work on optical activity .
After he had already described the synthesis and dissolution of enantiomeric nitrogen compounds in 1899 , he repeated these experiments at the University of Cambridge with sulfur and selenium . In 1913 he was one of the participants in the 2nd Solvay Conference on "The Structure of Matter ". In 1914 he was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society , of which he was a member ( Fellow ) since 1902, the highest British honor for scientists in the field of chemistry because of his important contributions to structural and organic chemistry .
In 1919 he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree and from then on carried the nobility title "Sir". In 1924 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .
For his scientific work, he was also awarded membership ( Freedom and Livery ) of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , one of the traditional English business associations within the City of London , and was their first overseer ( Prime Warden ) between 1928 and 1929 .
source
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary , p. 1221, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Pope, Sir, William Jackson (1870-1939) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- ↑ Davy Medal Winners 1989-1900
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 5, 2020 (French).
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SURNAME | Pope, William Jackson |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pope, Sir William Jackson |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1870 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1939 |