| RefNo | EC/1935/15 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIV, 196; A05945 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Read, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Known for his research work in organic chemistry, pursued actively for the past twenty-five years in the Universities of Cambridge, Sydney and St Andrews. His researches (80 Memoirs) cover wide and important fields, including (a) Optical activity; (b) Formation of halogenohydrins from unsaturated compounds; (c) Investigation of Australian products, including eucalyptus oils, marine fibre, Papuan petroleum; (d) Terpene chemistry. Built and developed the Sydney organic chemistry school. His discoveries in pure and organic chemistry include: - Resolution of simple asymmetric compounds; Sterochemistry of the hydrobenzoin series; Stereoisomeric menthones, menthols, menthylanimes, etc, Syntheses of puerperitols, alpha-phellandranes, etc, and the theory of their biochemical origin. Author of various literary works, including publications on historical chemistry. |
| Proposers | J C Irvine; W J Pope; Alex McKenzie; James Walker; G G Henderson; James Kendall; H Stanley Allen; J Norman Collie; F G Donnan; G T Morgan; Robert Robertson; E F Armstrong; T M Lowry; R Robinson; C K Ingold; J T Wilson |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1805 | Read; John (1884 - 1963) | 1884 - 1963 |