| Authorised form of name | Lapworth; Arthur (1872 - 1941); chemist |
| Dates | 1872 - 1941 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 10 October 1872 |
| Place of death | Manchester, Lancashire |
| Date of death | 05/04/1941 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
DSc (Lond)
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/05/1910 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1931 |
| Relationships | Son of Charles Lapworth (FRS 1888); brother-in-law of Frederic Stanley Kipping (FRS 1897) and of William Henry Perkin (FRS 1890); they married three sisters |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP); DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 555-572, plate, by R Robinson
References:
Arthur J Birch, 'Investigating a Scientific Legend: the Tropinone Synthesis of Sir Robert Robinson, FRS' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 277-296
W A Waters, 'Some Comments on the Development of Free Radical Chemistry' in NR 1984-85 vol 39 pp 105-124 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/52471342 |
| Code | NA6165 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1910/12 | Lapworth, Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/002631 | Lapworth, Arthur | nd |
| NLB/42/377 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 1 June 1910 |
| NLB/42/429 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Arthur] Lapworth FRS | 13 June 1910 |
| NLB/42/403 | Copy letter from Theodore E James to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 6 June 1910 |
| RR/21/123 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'Attempts to produce the rare gases by electric discharge' by Thomas Ralph Merton | 6 June 1914 |
| NLB/55/471 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Lapworth, FRS | 17 April 1918 |
| RR/38/108 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'The mechanism of chemical change. I.—Promotion and arrest of the mutarotation of tetra-acetylglucose in ethyl acetate' by Thomas Martin Lowry and G Glyn Owen | May 1928 |
| RR/43/78 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'The conductivity of electrolytes in acetone' by N L Ross Kane and Harold Hartley | August 1931 |
| RR/35/8 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds.—III. Photosynthesis in vivo and in vitro' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly and J B Davies | May 1927 |
| RR/32/48 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'Immobile groups of atoms with strong specific external fields as the cause of catalytic activity' by F H Constable | 26 September 1925 |
| NLB/68/768 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Lapworth, FRS | 30 October 1925 |
| NLB/42/433 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J [Joseph] Barcroft, FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 13 June 1910 |
| RR/21/32 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'An approximate estimate of the constituents of water' by William Robert Bousfield | [November 1914] |
| RR/35/13 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds. I.—The action of ultra-violet light on carbonic acid' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, J B Davies and H Shanassy | May 1927 |
| AP/79/16/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'The conductivity of potassium chloride solution' by Edgar Newbery | 1918 |
| AP/79/16 | Unpublished paper, 'The conductivity of potassium chloride solution' by Edgar Newbery | 1918 |
| RR/21/8 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'Morphological studies of benzene derivatives.—VII. The correlation of the forms of crystals with their molecular structure and orientation in a magnetic field in the case of hydrated sulphonates of dyad metals' by Henry Edward Armstrong and E H Rodd | [June 1914] |
| RR/21/12 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'Morphological studies of benzene derivatives. V.—The correlation of crystalline form with molecular structure: a verification of the Barlow-Pope conception of "valency-volume."' by Henry Edward Armstrong, R T Colgate and E H Rodd | 16 February 1914 |
| RR/35/11 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds.—II. The photosynthesis of carbohydrates from carbonic acid by means of visible light' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, W E Stephen and N R Hood | May 1927 |
| RR/39/48 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'A study of the catalysis by silver of the union of hydrogen and oxygen' by David Leonard Chapman and W K Hall | [May 1929] |