Prof Hugh Nicol

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

FRIC FCS (1898-1972) was a British bacteriologist and agricultural chemist.

Life

He was born in

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on 5 July 1898. He studied Science at the

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. He then became an Assistant Bacteriologist at

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then moved to the Commonwealth Bureau of Soil Science. In 1946 he moved to Scotland as Professor of Agricultural Chemistry at the West of Scotland Agricultural College in

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. In 1952 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Sir

William Gammie Ogg Sir William Gammie Ogg FRSE LLD (1891–1979) was a British horticultural scientist and Director of Rothamsted Experimental Station Life He was born at Craigbank Farm in Peterculter near Aberdeen on 2 November 1891 the son of James Ogg and his wif ...

, Kenneth Braid,

Donald McArthur Prof Donald Neil McArthur FRSE FRIC (1892-1965) was a 20th-century Scottish chemist who served as the Director of the Macaulay Institute for Soil Science from 1948 to 1958. Life He was born in Glasgow on 2 August 1892 the son of Donald McArthur ...

and John Walton. He retired in 1963 and died at home in Shoreham-by-Sea on 27 August 1972.

Publications

*''Microbes by the Million'' (1939 reprinted 1945) *''Microbes and Us'' (1955) *''The Limits of Man'' (1967)

References

1898 births 1972 deaths People from Shoreham-by-Sea Alumni of the University of London British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Chemical Society 20th-century non-fiction writers {{UK-chemist-stub