Neil Kensington Adam
| Neil Kensington Adam | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 November 1891 Cambridge |
| Died | 19 July 1973 (aged 81) |
| Institutions |
University of Sheffield University College London University of Southampton University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Neil Kensington Adam FRS (6 November 1891 – 19 July 1973) was a British chemist.[1][2][3][4][5]
Education
Adam was born in Cambridge, the son of a Classics don.[6] He studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later became a fellow.
Career
During the First World War, he served at the Royal Naval Airship Service at Kingsnorth, Kent.
He was Sorby Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield.
He was a Research Associate (1930–1936), and Lecturer (1936–1937) at University College London.[7]
He was a Chair at the University of Southampton.
He was married to Winifred Wright;[1] they were active Christian Scientists.[8] Adam died, aged 81, in Southampton.
References
- 1 2 3 Carrington, A.; Hills, G. J.; Webb, K. R. (1974). "Neil Kensington Adam 1891-1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 1–26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0001. JSTOR 769631.
- ↑ Adam, N. K. (1921). "Note on the Oxygen Consumption of Amphibian Muscle and Nerve". The Biochemical Journal. 15 (3): 358–362. doi:10.1042/bj0150358. PMC 1258989
. PMID 16742996. - ↑ "Neil Kensington Adam (1891-1973), Professor of chemistry", National Portrait Gallery
- ↑ The physics and chemistry of surfaces, Oxford University Press, 1952
- ↑ Physical chemistry, Clarendon Press, 1956
- ↑ The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge praelections of 1906, Editor Christopher Stray, Cambridge Philological Society, 2005, ISBN 978-0-906014-27-1
- ↑ http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/resources/history/people/adam.html
- ↑ http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/biog.html
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