Person Baker; Wilson (1900 - 2002) Baker Wilson 1900 - 2002 British Male Runcorn, Cheshire, England 24/01/1900 19000124 03/06/2002 20020603

Organic chemistry Education: Liverpool College Upper School; University of Manchester, Dalton Scholarship (1916 - 1921), spent two years working in France under the Friends' War Victims Committee Career: Researcher with Professor Arthur Lapworth; studied for doctorate with Robert Robinson; assistant lecturer at Manchester University (1924); demonstrator in Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford (1927); lecturer at Oxford University; fellow and praelector in chemistry at Queen's College, Oxford; published 'The Chemistry of Nitrogen' with T W J Taylor; part of the team that worked on the isolation and chemistry of penicillin in Oxford; as representative of the Oxford Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends was a founder member of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief which later developed into Oxfam (1942); Alfred Capper Pass Chair of organic chemistry at Bristol University (1944) where he gave the first ever public lecture on the chemistry of penicillin (1945); Tilden Lecture (1945) on "Non-benzenoid Aromatic Hydrocarbons"; Pedler Lecture (1965) on "The Eidening Outlook in Aromatic Chemistry"; Head of the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (1954); retired (1965) Memberships: Royal Society of Chemistry (publication committee; council; vice-president 1957 - 1960); International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (sub committee member) Son of Harry (Head Chemist of the Castner-Kellner Alkali Company) and Mary Baker; married Juliet (1927) d 1991 Royal Society roles: Council: 1954-1955 Fellow 21/03/1946 46 Sources: Obituary in The Times (6/6/2002) Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 15-38, plate, by J F W McOmie and D M G Lloyd ©Godfrey Argent Studio International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 24 Jan 1900 - NA3921 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes f5d31f56-9d5e-4741-92b1-3a354c094d84