Cyril Clifford Addison
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Cyril Clifford Addison, FRS (28 November 1913 Plumpton
, Cumberland
- 1 April 1994 Hale
, Cheshire
) was a British inorganic chemist
.
He was a member of the Chemical Inspection Department, Ministry of Supply from 1939 to 1945.
He was Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Nottingham University from 1946 to 1978, and Leverhulme Emeritus Professor from 1978 to 1994.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 19 March 1970.
He was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1976 to 1977
He married Marjorie Thompson in 1939; they had one son, one daughter.
Plumpton, Cumbria
Plumpton is a small village about north of Penrith, Cumbria.The village is made up of the former separate hamlets of Salkeld Gate and Brockleymoor and consists mainly of houses along a minor road connecting the A6 to the B5305 near Skelton and also a few houses and farms along the A6 itself.Close...
, Cumberland
Cumberland
Cumberland is a historic county of North West England, on the border with Scotland, from the 12th century until 1974. It formed an administrative county from 1889 to 1974 and now forms part of Cumbria....
- 1 April 1994 Hale
Hale, Halton
Hale is a village and civil parish in the Halton unitary authority of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,898....
, Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
) was a British inorganic chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
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He was a member of the Chemical Inspection Department, Ministry of Supply from 1939 to 1945.
He was Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Nottingham University from 1946 to 1978, and Leverhulme Emeritus Professor from 1978 to 1994.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 19 March 1970.
He was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1976 to 1977
He married Marjorie Thompson in 1939; they had one son, one daughter.
Works
- Inorganic chemistry of the main-group elements, Editor Cyril Clifford Addison, Chemical Society, 1978, ISBN 9780851867922
- HDA Corrosion Chemistry, Cyril Clifford Addison, Norman Logan, Defense Technical Information Center, 1977