Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford

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. 

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. 

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. 

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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