| RefNo | EC/1948/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XV, 183; A02325 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Farmer, Ernest Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his researches on unsaturated hydrocarbons and their derivatives, and particularly for his investigation of the reactive tendencies of unconjugated polyene substances in non-polar surroundings. His studies of autoxidation and the primary peroxidation mechanism of the polymeric hydrocarbons, vegetable and animal oils, and simple olefins are widely recognised. His elucidation of alpha-methylenic reactivity, and its importance in promoting molecule linking, vulcanisation and non-polar substitution, is especially noteworthy, as also his discovery of the olefin-phenol-formaldehyde reaction. Earlier investigations include the properties of conjugated compounds, the mechanism of low-molecular polymerisation, and the constitution of natural polyene acids. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. G Ingle Finch
From Personal Knowledge. W N Haworth; Eric K Rideal; Robert Robinson; I M Heilbron; G A R kon; C K Ingold; E F Armstrong; R P Linstead; J L Simonsen |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5080 | Farmer; Ernest Harold (1890 - 1952) | 1890 - 1952 |