Mason, Stephen Finney, 1923-2007, Professor of Chemistry

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Mason, Stephen Finney, 1923-2007, Professor of Chemistry

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1923-2007

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Born, 1923; educated, Wyggeston Grammar School; Wadham College, Oxford; BA, 1945; D Phil, 1947; college tutorship at Wadham College, Oxford, [1947-1953]; departmental demonstrator, Museum for the History of Science, Oxford, 1947-1953; Fellow of the Australian National Laboratory; Charles Coulson's Summer Schools in Theoretical Chemistry, 1955; Lecturer in Physical Organic Chemistry, University of Exeter, 1956; Reader, 1963; foundation chair of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, 1964-1970; Kings College London, 1970-1988; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1982; extraordinary Fellowship at Wolfson College, 1988-1990; died, 2007.

Publications:

A History of the Sciences (1956)

Molecular Optical Activity and the Chiral Discriminations (1982)

Chemical Evolution: Origins of the Elements, Molecules and Living Systems (1991)

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