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Authorised form of nameKnox; John Henderson (1927 - 2018)
Dates1927 - 2018
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of birth21/10/1927
Place of deathEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of death15/10/2018
Research fieldChromatography
Reaction kinetics
ActivityEducation:
University of Edinburgh, BSc in Chemistry (1949), D.Sc (1963); University of Cambridge, PhD in slow combustion kinetics of propane (1953)
Career:
Pioneer of gas chromotography; designer of the Knox Anchor; Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Edinburgh (1953), Reader (1966), Personal Chair in Physical Chemistry (1974); Senior Visiting Fellowship, University of Utah working on gas and liquid chromotography with Calvin Giddings (1964); Founding Director of Wolfson Unit for High Performance Liquid Chromatograhy (1972-1992); retired from teaching at Edinburgh University (1984);
Memberships:
FRSE (1971)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1984
Age at election56
SourceSources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox_(chemist)
Obituaries:
https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/john-knox/
Daily Telegraph 6 November 2018
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/43451320
CodeNA4460
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/GA/SGRS/8424Knox, John Henderson1985
EC/1984/17Knox, John Henderson: certificate of election to the Royal Society1977
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