William Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones

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William Francis Kenrick Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones (* 8. May 1903 in India , † 8. November 1982 ) was a British chemist , university teachers for Physical Chemistry and politician of the Labor Party , which in 1964 as a Life Peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Studies, research stays and lecturers

Wynne-Jones graduated after attending the Monkton Combe School in Bath to study chemistry at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth and was after graduation employees in the laboratory of Balliol College and Trinity College of the University of Oxford . There he worked as an assistant to Harold Hartley on the conductivity of acids in methanol - and ethanol - solutions . He then moved to the University of Bristol , where he became a member of the surface chemistry group led by James William McBain . During his studies he became a member of the Labor Party through his acquaintance with John Strachey .

With financial support from an international research grant, he worked between 1927 and 1929 at the chair of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted at the University of Copenhagen . His interest in physical chemistry was not only shaped by his contact with Brønsted, but also largely by other British guest researchers such as Ronald "Ronnie" Percy Bell and Edward A. Guggenheim . At the University of Copenhagen he also began to be interested in kinetics , which later became his main field of research.

After completing his work at the University of Copenhagen, he became a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading in 1929 and taught there until 1938. During this time, he worked for a year in 1934 as a visiting scientist ( Leverhulme Research Fellow ) in the Laboratory of Princeton , headed by Hugh Stott Taylor University and mainly dealt with the ionic dissociation of heavy water .

University professor and member of the House of Lords

In 1938 he was appointed professor and holder of the chair of chemistry at University College Dundee , which at the time was part of the University of St Andrews . There he continued his work on the dissociation of acids together with DH Everett.

During the Second World War , Wynne-Jones worked in addition to his teaching activities in Dundee between 1943 and 1945 as head of the chemical department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) in Farnborough . It was there that he developed an interest in storage batteries and rocket fuels.

After he became professor of physical chemistry at the time the 1947 University of Durham belonging to King's College in Newcastle upon Tyne was, he continues his work in the field of storage batteries and rocket fuels continued and built the first low-appointed department to a comprehensive research institution in particular in the field the electrochemistry and strengthened in the following years, the existing relations with the local industry. These industry-oriented projects also increased financial research funding. Later he was also director of the Newcastle-based Northern Coke Research Laboratories and made important contributions to scientific coal research with HE Blayden.

By a letters patent dated December 17, 1964, he was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Wynne-Jones , of Abergele in the County of Denbighshire, and belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member. As such, he was also active as a scientific advisor to the Labor Party on nuclear, fuel and energy policy.

Baron Wynne-Jones was also Pro-Vice Chancellor of Newcastle University, which emerged from King's College in 1963, between 1965 and 1968 . At the same time, he was committed to the expansion of universities in North East England, such as the Rutherford College of Technology, which was expanded into Newcastle Polytechnic in 1969 and has since received university status as Northumbria University in 1992. Wynne-Jones held the position of Chancellor of Newcastle Polytechnic from 1976 until his death in 1982.

In addition to his membership in the House of Lords, he was involved in the North Atlantic Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and between 1973 and 1977 chaired the Committee on Science and Technology and the Committee on Nuclear Energy of this Assembly.

Publications

  • The activity of hydrogen-ion in aqueous solutions of hydrogen fluoride , co-author Lawson John Hudleston, Journal of the Chemical Society , 1924, 125
  • Hydrogen-bonded solvent systems , 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ Proof of publication
personal data
SURNAME Wynne-Jones, William, Baron Wynne-Jones
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wynne-Jones, William Francis Kenrick, Baron Wynne-Jones (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH India
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1982