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Authorised form of name	Haworth; Sir; Walter Norman (1883 - 1950)
Dates	1883 - 1950
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Chorley, Lancashire, England
Date of birth	19 March 1883
Place of death	His home in Barnt Green, Birmingham, Worcestershire
Date of death	19/03/1950
Research field	Organic chemistry
Activity	Education: DSc (Manc); PhD (Gottingen) Career: Professor of Chemistry in the University of Birmingham Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1937 Honours: Kt 1947
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	10/05/1928
RSActivity	Royal Society roles: VP 1947-1948 Medals and prizes: Davy Medal 1934; Royal Medal 1942 Lectures: Bakerian 1944
Relationships	Son-in-law of Sir James Johnston Dobbie (FRS 1904)
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 373-404, plate, by E L Hirst Dr T V Attwood, 'Uranium Isotope Separation in the UK during World War II' Ph.D Thesis 2004
Code	NA1795

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1928/09	Haworth, Sir Walter Norman: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CMB/278/12	Notes on papers passed for publication [Proceedings]	1947
RR/45/76	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'Regularities in the composition of fruit-coat fats' by Thomas Percy Hilditch	[October 1932]
RR/52/69	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'Physico-chemical studies of complex organic molecules. III. Surface properties of concentrates of vitamin A' by Frank Philip Bowden and S H Bastow	24 April 1934
RR/65/183	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'Diffusion of long-chain sulphonic acids' by Evelyn Laing McBain	1938
RR/67/187	Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'Flame spectra in the photographic infra-red' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon to Walter Norman Haworth	24 June 1942
RR/71/153	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'Adjustments in bacterial reaction systems. II. Adaptive mechanisms' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and P R Lewis	[1948]
RR/67/387	Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the catalytic cyclization of aliphatic hydrocarbons. I' by Eric Keightley Rideal and E F G Herington to Walter Norman Haworth	24 November 1941
RR/71/182	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'Adjustments in bacterial reaction systems I. The reducing power of Bact. ladis aerogenes under various conditions' by P R Lewis and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood	[1948]
NLB/73/242	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Walter Norman] Haworth FRS	25 March 1931
IM/GA/WS/1428	Haworth, Sir Walter Norman	nd
IM/GA/Russell/16668	Haworth, Sir Walter Norman	1946
RR/56/58	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'Natural celluloses, Parts I, II and III' by A G Norman	3 June 1935
RR/52/72	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'Physico-chemical studies of complex organic molecules. Part IV. The oxidation of ascorbic acid by air' by Frank Phillip Bowden, S D D Morris and W L Francis	May 1934
RR/56/59	Referee's report by Walter Norman Haworth, on a paper 'On the association of xylan with cellulose in certain structural celluloses' by A G Norman	7 April 1936

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