Education
University of Nottingham. Imperial College London.
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Alfred Spinks
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He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1978
Spinks was born in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, on 25 February 1917. His father, Alfred Robert Spinks, was the manager of a brewery, and his mother was named Ruth Harley. Sparks moved to London to study for a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry at Imperial College.
He worked with Ian Heilbron and A. West. Johnson, focusing on synthesizing vitamin A.
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Royal Society.
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February 11, 1982 (aged 64) -
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British