Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford

Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford

▪ British chemist
born Nov. 9, 1897, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.
died June 7, 1978, Cambridge

      British chemist who was the corecipient, with fellow Englishman Sir George Porter (Porter, Sir George, Baron Porter of Luddenham) and Manfred Eigen (Eigen, Manfred) of West Germany, of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. All three were honoured for their studies of very fast chemical reactions.

      Norrish did his undergraduate and doctoral work at the University of Cambridge, served as research fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and directed the university's physical chemistry department for 28 years. Norrish and Porter, who worked together between 1949 and 1965, used the new technique of flash photolysis to study the intermediate stages involved in extremely rapid chemical reactions. In this technique, a gaseous system in a state of equilibrium is subjected to an ultrashort burst of light that causes photochemical reactions in the gas. A second burst of light is then used to detect and record the changes taking place in the gas before equilibrium is reestablished. Norrish became a professor emeritus in 1963, though he continued to work with individual students and as an industrial consultant.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Norrish , Ronald George Wreyford — (1897–1978) British chemist Norrish was educated at the university in his native Cambridge. Apart from the war years, he spent his whole career there, serving as professor of physical chemistry from 1937 until 1965. Norrish made his important… …   Scientists

  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — (* 9. November 1897 in Cambridge; † 7. Juni 1978 ebenda) war ein englischer Chemiker. 1967 wurde George Wreyford Norrish zusammen mit Manfred Eigen und George Porter „für die Untersuchungen von extrem schnellen chemischen Reaktionen, die durch… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (Cambridge, Inglaterra, 1897 íd. 1978) fue un químico y profesor universitario inglés galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Química en 1967. Biografía Nació el 9 de noviembre de 1897 en la …   Wikipedia Español

  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — (9 novembre 1897 à Cambridge 7 juin 1978 à Cambridge) était un chimiste britannique. Il a reçu conjointement avec Manfred Eigen et George Porter le prix Nobel de chimie de 1967 pour leurs travaux sur les réactions chimiques extrêmement rapides[1] …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — Infobox Scientist name = Ronald George Wreyford Norrish imagesize = 180px caption = Ronald George Wreyford Norrish birth date = birth date|1897|10|9 birth place = Cambridge, United Kingdom death date = death date and age|1978|6|7|1897|10|9 death… …   Wikipedia

  • Chemienobelpreis 1967: Manfred Eigen — Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — George Porter —   Der Deutsche Eigen und die beiden Briten Norrish und Porter wurden für die Entwicklung neuer experimenteller Methoden geehrt, mit denen sich die Geschwindigkeiten von extrem schnell verlaufenden chemischen Reaktionen bestimmen ließen.  … …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — noun English chemist (1897 1978) • Syn: ↑Norrish • Instance Hypernyms: ↑chemist …   Useful english dictionary

  • Norrish — Ronald George Wreyford …   Scientists

  • Norrish — Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (* 9. November 1897 in Cambridge; † 7. Juni 1978 ebenda) war ein englischer Chemiker. 1967 wurde George Wreyford Norrish zusammen mit Manfred Eigen und George Porter „für die Untersuchungen von extrem schnellen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Ronald Norrish — Ronald George Wreyford Norrish Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (né le 9 novembre 1897 à Cambridge, mort le 7 juin 1978 dans la même ville), était un chimiste britannique. Biographie En 1915, il obtint une bourse pour étudier les sciences… …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”