biography
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Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman
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| lived:
| (1897–1967)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was professor there from 1937. He did valuable work on the effect of drugs on bacterial cells, and investigated chemical reaction kinetics, for which he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1956. A considerable linguist and Classical scholar, he had the unique distinction of being president of both the Royal Society (from 1955) and the Classical Association (in 1960). He was knighted in 1948. |
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