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He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small flat in Chelsea where he lived for the rest of his life.
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He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small flat in Chelsea where he lived for the rest of his life.
Born in London, his parents were Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethel Frances née Smith. He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small flat in Chelsea where he lived for the rest of his life. He then studied at Westminster City School and, Oxford.
During the First World War, Hinshelwood was a chemist in an explosives factory. He was a tutor at Trinity College, Oxford from 1921 to 1937 and was Doctor Lee’s Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford from 1937. He served on several Advisory Councils on scientific matters to the British Government.
His early studies of molecular kinetics led to the publication of Thermodynamics for Students of Chemistry and The Kinetics of Chemical Change in 1926.
With Harold Warris Thompson he studied the explosive reaction of hydrogen and oxygen and described the phenomenon of chain reaction. His subsequent work on chemical changes in the bacterial cell proved to be of great importance in later research work on antibiotics and therapeutic agents, and his book, The Chemical Kinetics of the Bacterial Cell was published in 1946, followed by Growth, Function and Regulation in Bacterial Cells in 1966.
In 1951 he published The Structure of Physical Chemistry. lieutenant was republished as an Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences by Oxford University Press in 2005.
The Langmuir-Hinshelwood process in heterogeneous catalysis, in which the adsorption of the reactants on the surface is the rate-limiting step, is named after him.
He was a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London, 1964-1967.
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Fellow, tutor Trinity College, Oxford, 1921-1937. Member of advisory council science policy British Government, 1953-1956. Fellow Royal Society (past president).
Member National Academy Sciences, Pontifical Academy, Chemical Society (president 1946-1948), British Association (president 1964-1965), French, Belgian, Swiss, Italian chemical societies Spanish Society Physics and Chemistry.
Member Accademia dei Extra Large Rome, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Liucei (Rome), Real Academia de Ciencias Madrid, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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