Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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| Ronald George Wreyford Norrish | |
 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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| Born | 9 November 1897 Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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| Died | 7 June 1978 (aged 80) Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Cambridge University |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Keightley Rideal |
| Known for | Norrish reaction |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1967) |
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist. He was born in Cambridge and attended The Perse School.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 along with Manfred Eigen and George Porter for their study of extremely fast chemical reactions. One of his accomplishments is the development of the Norrish reaction.
[edit] References
- Frederick Dainton; B. A. Thrush (1981). "Ronald George Wreyford Norrish. 9 November 1897-7 June 1978". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 27: 379–424. doi:. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0080-4606%28198111%2927%3C379%3ARGWN9N%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L.
[edit] External links
- Norrish's Nobel Foundation biography
- Norrish's Nobel Lecture Some Fast Reactions in Gases Studied by Flash Photolysis and Kinetic Spectroscopy
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