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RefNoEC/1923/12
Previous numbersCert XIII, 240; A04923
LevelItem
TitleMills, William Hobson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse. Citation typed
CitationDistinguished as an investigator and teacher in organic chemistry. Prepared, in 1910, the first, and only example of an optically active compound which contains no asymmetric atom, but owes its asymmetry to an oxime grouping. Solved in 1919-1921 the problem of the constitutions of the photographic sensitisers known as the isocyanines and carbocyanines. Since 1902 has published some 20 original papers. He has trained in chemical research a large number of collaborators whose names are associated with his own in the published papers.
ProposersW J Pope; Charles T Heycock; T Martin Lowry; H J H Fenton; Alex McKenzie; Robert Robinson; J C Irvine; George Barger; James Walker; Arthur Lapworth; M O Forster
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Mills, William Hobson: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6121Mills; William Hobson (1873 - 1959)1873 - 1959
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