Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
Physical chemistry, chemical kinetics
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(1897 - 1978)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1981.0016
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 was divided, one half awarded to Manfred Eigen, the other half jointly to Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy".

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Mowbray Ritchie research assistant Cambridge
John Philip Simons grad student Cambridge
T. Morris Sugden grad student Cambridge
Richard P. Wayne grad student
Clement Henry Bamford grad student 1934-1937 Trinity College (Cambridge)
William Charles Price grad student 1936-1937 Cambridge
Frederick Sydney Dainton grad student 1941 Cambridge
Rosalind E. Franklin grad student 1941-1942 Cambridge
John C. Bevington grad student 1943-1948 Cambridge
George Porter grad student 1949 Cambridge
Brian Arthur Thrush grad student 1953 Cambridge
James E. Guillet grad student 1955 Cambridge
David Husain grad student 1962 Cambridge
Norman Basco grad student 1966 Cambridge
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Norrish RG. (1969) Fifty years of physical chemistry in great britain. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 20: 1-25
Norrish RG. (1965) The Kinetics and Analysis of Very Fast Chemical Reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.). 149: 1470-82
ASHMORE PG, NORRISH RG. (1951) A phenomenon of successive ignitions. Nature. 167: 390-2
NORRISH RG, PATNAIK D. (1949) Effect of light on the combustion of hydrocarbons. Nature. 163: 883-5
HARDING AJ, NORRISH RG. (1949) Role of formaldehyde in the oxidation of ethylene. Nature. 163: 797
BENGOUGH WI, NORRISH RG. (1949) A new catalytic effect in vinyl polymerizations. Nature. 163: 325
McDOWELL CA, THOMAS JH, NORRISH RG. (1948) Mechanism of the oxidation of gaseous formaldehyde. Nature. 162: 367
NORRISH RG, RUSSELL KE. (1947) Friedel-Crafts catalysts in polymerization: kinetic measurements and the role of water. Nature. 160: 543
AXFORD DW, NORRISH RG. (1947) Mechanism of the oxidation of gaseous formaldehyde. Nature. 160: 537
LONG LH, NORRISH RG. (1946) The thermochemistry of carbon; valence states, heats of sublimation and energies of linkage. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 187: 337-57
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