| 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 |
| 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 |