| Authorised form of name | Hirst; Sir; Edmund Langley (1898 - 1975); chemist |
| Dates | 1898 - 1975 |
| Date of birth | 21 July 1898 |
| Date of death | 29/10/1975 |
| Activity | Education:
MA; DSc
Career:
Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry in the University of Birmingham
Honours:
CBE 1957; Kt 1964
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/05/1934 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1948
Lectures:
Bakerian 1959 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1976 vol 22 pp 137-168, plate, by M Stacey and Elizabeth Percival |
| Royal Society code | NA1892 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| PB/1/33/1/4 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| EC/1934/07 | Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/1/33/3/3 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| PB/1/33/4/3 | President of the Royal Society | 1965 |
| IM/GA/WRS/5425 | Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley | nd |
| RR/72/110 | Referee's report by Edmund Langley Hirst, on a paper 'Crystalline anti-pernicious anaemia factor from liver' by K H Fantes, J E Page, L F J Parker and Ernest Lester Smith | 1949 |
| IM/GA/WS/2602 | Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley | 1946 |
| RR/65/112 | Referee's report by Edmund Langley Hirst, on a paper 'Starch-iodine coloration as an index of differential degradation by the amylases' by Charles Samuel Hanes and Margaret Cattle | March 1938 |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |