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Richard Norman.
Sir Richard Oswald Chandler Norman, KBEFRS (April 27, 1932 – June 6, 1993) was a British chemist.[1]
Biography
Norman was born in
Norbury, London. His father Oswald managed a bank in the area. Norman received his primary education at
St Paul's School, London. He graduated with a first in chemistry from
Balliol College, Oxford in 1955, and the following year joined
Merton College, Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow, completing his
DPhil in 1957.[2] His doctoral thesis investigated using continuous flow mixing techniques to study rapid free radical reactions. He was elected as a Fellow of Merton College in 1958, lecturing, tutoring and building up a research team.
In 1965 Norman moved to the
University of York to create a new chemistry department, where he gained a reputation for the study of organic reactions. In 1987 he returned to Oxford as
Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, where he remained until his death.
He married Jennifer Margaret Tope in 1982; they had no children. He died in Oxford in 1993; his body was cremated at Oxford.
Textbooks and Monographs
Electrophilic Substitution in Benzenoid Compounds (with Roger Taylor) (published 1964)
Principles of Organic Synthesis (published 1968; 3rd ed. 1993, with James M. Coxon)
Modern Organic Chemistry (with David J. Waddington) (published 1972; 4th ed. 1983)
Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry: Case Studies (with Michael J. Tomlinson and David J. Waddington, published 1978)