Samuel Sugden

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Samuel Sugden,[1] FRS[2][3] was an eminent[4] chemist[5] in the first half of the 20th century.[6] He was born in Leeds[7] on 21 February 1892 and educated at Batley Grammar School[2] and the Royal College of Science.[8] After war time service with the BEF he was a Research Chemist the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich[9] following which he became a Lecturer, Reader [10] then Professor of Physical chemistry at Birkbeck College.[11] In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[2] and in1937 became Professor of Physical Chemistry at University College, London.[12] When World War II returned he joined the newly formed Ministry of Supply but resigned in 1944 to take up a similar post with the United States Air Force Eighth Air Force. A noted author,[13] he died on 20 October 1950.[14]

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  5. The Ridings of Yorkshire
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  7. Famous people from Yorkshire
  8. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
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  10. Sugden , Samuel (1892–1950)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sutton,L. E (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) ISBN 0-19-861411-X
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  12. UCL profile
  13. Amongst others he wrote “The Structure of Atoms”, 1923; “A Class Book of Physical Chemistry”;and “The Parachor and Valency”, 1929 > British Library web-site accessed Sunday 26 July 2009 6:17GMT
  14. Obituary Professor S. Sugden The Times Tuesday, 24 Oct 1950; pg. 8; Issue 51830; col E


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