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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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Person

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

1897 – 1978 · aged 81

British chemist

Born
9 Nov 1897 · Cambridge
Died
7 Jun 1978 · Cambridge

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 93 years
  1. 9 Nov 1897BornBorn in Cambridge
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1926AwardMeldola Medal and Prize
  4. 1936AwardFellow of the Royal Society
  5. 1957AwardLiversidge Award
  6. 1958AwardDavy Medal
  7. 1958AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  8. 1965AwardFaraday Lectureship Prize
  9. 1966AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  10. 1967AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  11. 1969AwardLongstaff Prize
  12. 7 Jun 1978DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1897 – 1978).

  1. 1898Spanish–American War
  2. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

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