Portrait of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Date
c.1960s
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897 - 1978) , Chemist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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Seated portrait of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, facing forward, one hand holding on to his lapel. Dressed in a black suit, striped tie and white shirt.
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal So-ciety in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1958, Bakerian Award, 1966, and was joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and George Porter (1920-2002) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibri-um by means of very short pulses of energy’.
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal So-ciety in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1958, Bakerian Award, 1966, and was joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and George Porter (1920-2002) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibri-um by means of very short pulses of energy’.
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