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Sir Theodore Morris Sugden FRS, (31 December 1919 – 3 January 1984) was a British chemist who specialised in combustion research.


Biography

Theodore Morris Sugden (Morris) was born in the village of
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, the only child of Florence (née Chadwick) and Frederick Morris Sugden, a clerk in a mill. After attending Sowerby Bridge and District Secondary School he gained an open scholarship to
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in 1938, where he read chemistry and was awarded a First in 1940. That year he began research under physicist W C Price on the measurement of precise ionization potentials of molecules. He later switched to working with R G W Norrish for war-work on the suppression of gun flash. Sugden’s later research activities were in the fields of flame studies, flame photometry, ionization in flames, and microwave spectroscopy.


Appointments

* University Demonstrator in Physical Chemistry, 1946 *
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Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, 1950 * Reader in Physical Chemistry, 1960 * Director of Research at the Shell Thornton Research Centre, near Chester, 1964 * Director of Thornton Research Centre, 1967 * Chief Executive of Shell Research Limited, 1974-1975 * Master of
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, 1976


Awards and honours

* Elected to the Royal Society, 1963 * Awarded an honorary D Tech. by
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, 1967 * Awarded an honorary doctorate of science by
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, Ontario, 1973 * Made a CBE, 1975 * Received the Davy Medal, 1975 * Awarded an honorary doctorate of science by
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, 1977 * Awarded an honorary doctorate of science by
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, 1978 * He was an Honorary Fellow of Jesus and Queens' Colleges, Cambridge. * Elected a Corresponding Member of the
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, 1975. * Chairman of the Combustion Institute Committee, 1970–1982, and an International Vice-President, 1974–1982. * President of the Chemical Society, 1978-1979 * Physical Secretary of the Royal Society, 1978-1984 * Knighted in the New Year Honours List, 1983


Family

Sugden married Marian Florence Cotton in 1945. They had one child, Andrew Morris, born in 1954. He graduated from Oxford in Botany in 1975, and later gained a doctorate in tropical rainforest ecology. He undertook an expedition to the Serranía de Macuira in northern Colombia, publishing a checklist to the plants of this area along with Enrique Forero. He has subsequently followed an editorial career. Sir Theodore Morris Sugden died at
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, Cambridge on 3 January 1984; he was cremated in Cambridge on the 10th. The Sugden Award for combustion research is named in his honour. Lady Marian Sugden died in December 2009.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sugden, Theodore Morris 1919 births 1984 deaths Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society British chemists Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge