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British chemist
Kennedy Joseph Previté Orton |
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Born | 21 January 1872
St. Leonard's on Sea |
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Died | 16 March 1930
Bangor |
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Scientific career |
Fields | Physical Organic Chemistry |
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Kennedy J. P. Orton (1872 - 1930) was a British
chemist.
[1] Initially he studied medicine at
St. Thomas' Hospital, but there he became interested in chemistry and moved to
St. John's College, Cambridge. He then obtained a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Heidelberg under
Karl von Auwers, before working for a year with
Sir William Ramsey at
University College, London. He was then lecturer and demonstrator of Chemistry at
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before in 1903 being appointed Professor of Chemistry at
University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he headed the department until his death. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921.
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Besides being a chemist, he was a keen climber and
ornithologist, and a biannual ornithological lecture was endowed in his name.
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References
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^ Shorter, John (1998).
"Some pioneers of the kinetics and mechanism of organic reactions". Chemical Society Reviews. 27 (5): 355.
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0306-0012.
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^ "Professor Kennedy Orton". The Times. 24 March 1930. p. 19.
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^ "Professor Orton". The Times. 19 March 1930. p. 19.
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^ University of Cambridge; Venn, John; Venn, J. A. (John Archibald) (1922–54).
Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900;. Robarts - University of Toronto. Cambridge, University Press.
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^ "Kennedy J. P. Orton". Ibis. 73: 100. 1931.
doi:
10.1111/j.1474-919X.1931.tb01508.x.
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^ Lucas, A.; Jones, E. Gabriel; David, T. W. Edgeworth; Goulding, Ernest; Bolton, E. R. (1931).
"Obituary notices". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 1042.
doi:
10.1039/jr9310001024.
ISSN
0368-1769.
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^ Angus, W. Rogie (1954).
"Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. June 1954". Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. 78 (June): 291–298.
doi:
10.1039/ji9547800289.
ISSN
0368-3958.