Background
JACOBS., PH D. Distinguished Service Cross. was born on September 15, 1923 in Durban, S. Africa. Son of Lewis Masterman and Florence Edith (nee McCarthy) Jacobs.
JACOBS., PH D. Distinguished Service Cross. was born on September 15, 1923 in Durban, S. Africa. Son of Lewis Masterman and Florence Edith (nee McCarthy) Jacobs.
Natal University College, and Imperial College, London University.
Assistant Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Imperial College, London 1950-1952, Lecturer 1952-1962, Senior Lecturer 1962-1964. Reader 1964-1965; Professor, of Chemistry, University of West. Ontario since 1965. Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge 1973-1974.
Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford 1982.
Married 1st Elizabeth Menzies in 1950 (divorced in 1980), two son one daughter. Married 2nd Rita Anne Kirkwood Charter in 1981 (died in 1990).