Alwyn George Davies FRS (born 13 May 1926) is a British chemist, emeritus professor, and Fellow of

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Life

Davies was born on 13 May 1926. He earned a B.Sc. from University College London in 1946, and Ph.D. in 1949, where he studied with

Christopher Kelk Ingold Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (28 October 1893 – 8 December 1970) was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was resp ...

. Davies was a lecturer at

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, from 1949 to 1953. He also taught at University College London from 1953 to 1991.

Works

*''Organic Peroxides'', Butterworths, 1961 *; Wiley-VCH, 2004, *

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20121105220447/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/emeritus/alwyn_davies/research *https://web.archive.org/web/20120426041635/http://solarsaddle.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/william-ramsay-a-blue-plaque-9-february-2011/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Alwyn 1926 births Living people British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of University College London Academics of University College London Place of birth missing (living people)