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Authorised form of nameTaylor; Sir; Hugh Stott (1890 - 1974)
Dates1890 - 1974
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSt Helens, Lancashire, England
Date of birth06 February 1890
Place of deathPrinceton, New Jersey, USA
Date of death17/04/1971
Research fieldPhysical chemistry
ActivityEducation:
DSc (Liverpool)
Career:
Professor of Physical Chemistry and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, USA
Honours:
KBE 1953
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1932
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1975 vol 21 pp 517-547, plate, by C Kemball
CodeNA1849
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1932/15Taylor, Sir Hugh Stott: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/842Some papers relating to Sir Hugh Stott Taylor1974-1975
IM/004504Taylor, Sir Hugh Stott1967
RR/32/129Referee's report by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, on a paper 'A theory of the catalytic surface' by Hugh Stott TaylorMarch 1925
RR/34/118Referee's report by David Leonard Chapman, on a paper 'The mechanism of activation at catalytic surfaces' by Hugh Stott Taylor[August 1926]
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