Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

摘要

SIR Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS was an English physical chemist.He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small'flat in Chelsea where he lived for the rest of his life. He studied in Westminster CitySchool and Balliol College, Oxford University.During the First World War, Hinshelwood was a chemist in an explosives factory. He was a tutor at Trinity College from 1921 to 1937 and was Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford from 1937. He served on several Advisory Councils on scientific matters to the British Government. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929, serving as President from 1955 to 1960. He was knighted in 1948 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1960.