Norrish, Ronald

Norrish, Ronald G. W. (1897-1978). An English physical chemist who was recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1967 with Eigen and Porter. His analysis of reactions of one ten-billionth of a second... 

Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford (1897-1978) British physical chemist. Norrish made important contributions to the study of fast chemical reactions, particularly those initiated by light. Between 1949 and 1965 he developed the techniques of flash photolysis and kinetic spectroscopy with George PORTER to study fast chemical reactions. Norrish and Porter shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Manfred EIGEN for this work. In his later years Norrish studied chain reactions and the kinetics of polymerization. 

Norrish, Ronald Georse Wreyford (1879-1978) British chemist who was one of the pioneers of photochemistry, and who invented flash photolysis, a technique in which photochemical change caused by a very brief, bright flash of light can immediately be studied by the absorption spectra of the resultant materials. For this advance, he was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in chemistry, together with Manfred Eigen and George Porter. 

Dainton, F. and Thrush, B. A. (1981). Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, 9 November 1897-7 June 1978. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 27 379-424. 

After graduation in 1941, Franklin accepted a position with the future Nobel Laureate, Ronald Norrish,75 exploring gas-phase chromatography of organic mixtures. Franklin and Norrish had an abrasive relationship, which was due to personality problems... 

The study of reaction kinetics in solution has seen tremendous advances since the 1960s. This progress has been recognized by four Nobel Prizes. In 1967, Manfred Eigen, Ronald Norrish, and Sir George Porter received the Nobel Prize for their studies of extremely fast reactions affected by disturbing a solution equilibrium by... 

Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, George Porter 1913 Alfred Werner... 

Porter, George, Baron (1920-2001) British physical chemist. In collaboration with Ronald NORRISH, Porter developed the technique of flash photolysis for investigating fast chemical reactions, starting in the late 1940s. He shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Norrish and Manfred EIGEN. 

Eisen, Manfred (b. 1927) German physical chemist who carried out research on chemical reactions that occur so quickly that investigation of them is very difficult. Such reactions were previously thought to be instantaneous. He succeeded in developing techniques that allowed the analysis of these reactions and shared with Ronald Norrish and George Porter the 1967 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978), United Kingdom George Porter (1920-2002), United Kingdom, for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy. ... 

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