| Authorised form of name | Rowlinson; Sir; John Shipley (1926 - 2018); physical chemist |
| Dates | 1926 - 2018 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Easedale, Bulkeley Road, Handforth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 12 May 1926 |
| Place of death | John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 15 August 2018 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Place of marriage: Walkden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Physical chemist |
| Research field | Physical chemistry |
| Chemical kinetics |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Rossall School in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; Trinity College, Oxford (1945-1948); DPhil (1951)
Career:
ICI research fellow at the University of Manchester (1951); lecturer, Manchester University (1954); promoted to senior lecturer (1957); professor of chemical technology, Imperial College, London (1961-1974); Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry, Oxford University (1974); retired and became Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (1993).
Honours:
KB 2000
Awards/Medals:
Faraday Lectureship Prize 1983
Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society 2008
Memberships:
Royal Academy of Engineering (founder 1976) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1970 |
| Age at election | 43 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1994- 1999; Sec 1994-1999 ; VP 1994-1999
Medals and prizes:
Leverhulme Medal 1993 |
| Relationships | Parents: Frank Rowlinson (1898–1986), publicity manager, and Winifred Trussler, née Jones (1899–1994).
Spouse: (m. 2 August 1952) Nancy Gaskell (1930–2012), classics student at Somerville College, Oxford, daughter of Horace Gaskell, railway clerk, and Ana, née Gallagher.
Children: Paul (b. 1954), professional translator, and Stella (b. 1956), anaesthetist. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 15808
RCN 15809
RCN 15810
RCN 15811
RCN 20362 |
| OtherInfo | Known for his outstanding work on the thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and fluid mixtures.
Discovered the wide occurrence of lower critical solution temperatures in mixtures of volatile and involatile fluids, and showed how to calculate accurately the properties of 3-component systems from the 2-component sub-systems.
Demonstrated that the Lennard-Jones potential is not fully consistent with the properties of simple fluids, and has proposed a form for the pair distribution function which represents with high accuracy their properties over a wide range.
Liberal Party councillor on Sale borough (1956-1959) where played an important part in Sale becoming the first council in England to adopt the Clean Air Act of 1956.
Skilled and accomplished mountain climber.
Excellent chess player who played competitively. |
| Source | DNB
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'Le Sage's Essai de chymie mechanique' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 35-45
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
J S Rowlinson, 'Gases and liquids. How fluids unmix: discoveries by the school of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes, by J L Sengers' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 255-256
by Basil Mahon' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 103-104
J S Rowlinson, 'A national treasure house. "'The common purposes of life': science and society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain" ed Frank A J L James ' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 105-106
J S Rowlinson, 'The war time work of Hinshelwood and his colleagues' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 161-175
J S Rowlinson, 'Displacing Phlogiston. Robert Siegfried, From elements to atoms: a history of chemical composition' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 242-243
J S Rowlinson, 'Royal Society purchases from the Macclesfield Library', in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 67-69
J S Rowlinson, 'Bringing chemistry to Cambridge', review of 'The 1702 chair of chemistry at Cambridge: transformation and change' M D Archer & C D Haley (eds), in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 103-105
J S Rowlinson, 'Dr Thomas Carver and Lord Kelvin', in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 161-170
J S Rowlinson, 'Laplace: the man. ' Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A determined scientist' by R Hahn, in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 221 - 223
J S Rowlinson, 'Flattening the earth. The wuest for the true figure of the Earth: ideas and expeditions in four centuries of geodesy by M R Hoare' in NR 2007 vol 61 pp 67-68
J S Rowlinson, 'John Freind: physician, chemist, Jacobite, and friend of Voltaire's' in NR 2007 vol 61 pp 109-127 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/108872182 |
| Code | NA2323 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/GRS/5654 | Rowlinson, Sir John Shipley | nd |
| IM/003915 | Rowlinson, John Shipley | 30 November 1993 |
| IM/000107 | Anniversary Day 2000 | 2000 |
| RR/71/175 | Referee's report by William Edward Garner, on a paper 'The second virial coefficients of organic vapours' by J D Lambert, G A H Roberts, John Shipley Rowlinson and V J Wilkinson | [1948] |
| CMB/382 | Publications Executive Committee minutes | 10 June 1996-5 November 1997 |
| IM/005057 | Lachmann, Sir Peter; Atiyah, Sir Michael and Rowlinson, Sir John on Admission Day 1995 | 1995 |
| EC/1970/23 | Rowlinson, John Shipley: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/73/207 | Referee's report by William Edward Garner, on a paper 'Ultrasonic dispersion in organic vapours' by J D Lambert and John Shipley Rowlinson | 21 August 1950 |
| RR/77/34 | Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The theory of regular solutions' by John Shipley Rowlinson | 12 April 1952 |
| RR/79/106 | Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'Deviations from the principle of corresponding states' by D Cook and John Shipley Rowlinson | 17 May 1953 |
| RR/77/33 | Referee's report by Ronald Percy Bell, on a paper 'The theory of regular solutions' by John Shipley Rowlinson | 2 March 1952 |