| Authorised form of name | Simonsen; Sir; John Lionel (1884 - 1957) |
| Dates | 1884 - 1957 |
| Date of birth | 22 July 1884 |
| Date of death | 20/02/1957 |
| Activity | Education:
DSc (Manchester)
Career:
Professor of Chemistry in the University College of North Wales, Bangor; ex-Imperial Forest Chemist to the Government of India; subsequently Professor of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Honours:
Kt 1949
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/05/1932 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1950 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1959 vol 5 pp 237-252, plate, by R Robinson |
| Royal Society code | NA1198 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| M/134 | Davy Medal | 1950 |
| RR/69/277 | Referee's report by John Lionel Simonsen, on a paper 'The differential effect of synthetic plant growth substances and other compounds upon plant species I. Seed germination and early growth responses to a-naphthylacetic acid and compounds of the general formula arylOCH2COOR' by W A Sexton and W G Templeman | 1 June 1945 |
| RR/69/133 | Letter from John Lionel Simonsen, Colonical Products Research Council, on a paper 'Fatigue of mineral glass under static and cyclic loading' by C Gurney and S Pearson to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 9 October 1947 |
| RR/70/63 | Letter from John Lionel Simonsen, 'Phase equilibria for a complex mixture—coal gas—at low temperatures and high pressures' by H Chow to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 27 July 1947 |
| RR/72/149 | Referee's report by John Lionel Simonsen, on a paper 'The catalytic hydrogenation of methyl elaeostearate, and of mixtures of elaeostearic with other polyethenoid long-chain esters' by Thomas Percy Hilditch and S P Pathak | 23 March 1949 |
| IM/004192 | Simonsen, Sir John Lionel | nd |
| EC/1932/13 | Simonsen, Sir John Lionel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/1/33/1/8 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| IM/GA/WS/1755 | Simonsen, Sir John Lionel | 1946 |
| RR/69/280 | Referee's report by John Lionel Simonsen, on a paper 'The differential effect of synthetic growth substances and other compounds upon plant species II. Seed germination and early growth responses to some arylcarbamic esters and related compounds' by W G Templeman and W A Sexton | 1945 |
| RR/69/281 | Letter from John Lionel Simonsen, on a paper 'The differential effect of synthetic growth substances and other compounds upon plant species II. Seed germination and early growth responses to some arylcarbamic esters and related compounds' by W G Templeman and W A Sexton to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 1 November 1945 |