Mowbray Ritchie
Dr Mowbray Ritchie FRSE (5 October 1905 – 2 September 1966) was a 20th-century Scottish chemist and scientific author. He was a friend and colleague of Sir Edmund Hirst.[1]
Life[]
Ritchie was born in Peebles on 5 October 1905, and was educated at Peebles High School. He studied chemistry at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1927. He then continued as a postgraduate gaining two doctorates (PhD and DSc). In 1932 Ritchie began working as a demonstrator at University chemistry lectures, and was promoted to lecturer in 1935.
In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Pickering Kendall, John Edwin MacKenzie, , and Thomas Robert Bolam. He served as Vice President to the Society from 1963 until 1966, and won the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the period 1946-48.[2]
He died in Edinburgh on 2 September 1966, aged 60.
Publications[]
- Thermal Decomposition of Ozone (1935)
- Chemical Kinetics in Homogenous Systems (1966)
References[]
- ^ Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry vol 35
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
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