| Activity | Education:
Central Secondary School for Boys, Sheffield; Goldsmiths' Company Exhibition to St John's College, Oxford (1933-1937) BA (1937) First Class Honours in Chemistry; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1937-1940) Goldsmiths' Company Senior Student (1939) PhD (1940)
Career:
Demonstrator in Chemistry, University of Cambridge (1944); Fellow, St Catherine's College, Cambridge and Lecturer, Physicial Chemistry (1945); Professor of Physical Chemistry, Leeds University (1950-1965); Vice-Chancellor, Nottingham University (1965-1969); member of the Council for Scientific Policy (1965-1972); member of Working Group on Manpower Parameters for scientific growth (1965-1968); Chairman of the National Libraries Committee (1967-1969); member of Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology (1967-1970); Honorary Director of the Cookridge Radiation Research Centre, Leeds; Dr Lees' Professor of Chemistry, Oxford (1969-1972); Chairman of Council for Scientific Policy and it successor body the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (1969-1973); Chairman, University Grants Committee (1973-1978); National Radiological Protection Board (1977-1985), Chairman (1978-1985); Chairman of British Library Board (1978-1985); Chancellor of University of Sheffield (1978-1997); Chairman of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (1980-1989), President (1989-1997); member of the Court of Governors, London School of Economics (1980-1997), Chairman of Library Panel (1986-); Goldsmiths' Company Court of Assistants (1973), Prime Warden (1982-1983), Chairman of Education Committee; served on House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, chairing the Adacemic Research Careers Sub-Committee, the Systematic Biology Research Sub-Committee and the Forensic Science Sub-Committee; awarded 25 honorary degrees from universities worldwide; awarded Faraday Medal (1974)
Memberships:
Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Sciences Gottingen, American Philosophical Society; Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College Cambridge, St John's College Oxford, Goldsmiths' College London, Queen Mary and Westfield College London, the London School of Economics, Birkbeck College London and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School
Honours:
Kt 1971; Baron 1986 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 85-124, plate, by P Gray and K J Ivin
AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 112/11/02 Papers deposited at University of Sheffield Library
References:
N Calver and M Parker ' The logic of scientific Unity? Medawar, the Royal Society and the Rothschild controversy 1971-2.' In Notes and Records, Vol 70, Issue 1, March 2016 pp 83-100 |