| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood  AKA Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Born: 19-Jun-1897
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 9-Oct-1967
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Kinetics of Chemical Change British chemist Cyril Hinshelwood worked for three years at an explosives and munitions factory after completing high school, before enrolling at Oxford's Balliol College at the conclusion of World War I. In 1926 he described the complex and explosive reactions of hydrogen and oxygen, a significant contribution to the scientific understanding of chemical kinetics. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Russian physicist Nikolay Semyonov, who conducted similar work independently. He headed Oxford's Dante Society, enjoyed collecting Chinese pottery and Persian rugs, and never married. Father: Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood (accountant, d. 1904)
Mother: Ethel Frances Smith
High School: Westminster City School, London, England (1916)
University: Oxford University (1924)
Fellow: Balliol College, Oxford University
Fellow: Trinity College, Oxford University
Fellow: Exeter College, Oxford University
Teacher: Trinity College, Oxford University (1921-37)
Professor: Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry, Oxford University (1937-64)
Scholar: Sr. Research Fellow, Imperial College London (1964-)
Lavoisier Medal 1935
Davy Medal 1942
Royal Medal 1947
Knight of the British Empire 1948
RSC Longstaff Prize 1948
Guldberg Medal 1952
IET Faraday Medal 1953
Amadeo Avogadro Medal 1956
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1956 (with Nikolay Semyonov)
Leverhulme Medal 1960
Order of Merit 1960
Copley Medal 1962
Classical Association President, 1959
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Society 1929
Royal Society of Chemistry President, Chemical Society of London, 1946-48
Royal Society Secretary, 1950-55
Royal Society President, 1955-60
Royal Society of Chemistry President, Faraday Society, 1961-62
English Ancestry
Author of books:
Thermodynamics for Students of Chemistry (1926, textbook)
The Kinetics of Chemical Change (1926, chemistry)
The Chemical Kinetics of the Bacterial Cell (1946, chemistry)
The Structure of Physical Chemistry (1951, chemistry)
Chemistry and Man (1953, lectures)
Growth, Function and Regulation in Bacterial Cells (1966, chemistry)
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