GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP31 - GOLD, Professor Victor (1922-1985)

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GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP31 Created [1988] Collection (fonds) 1 item Gold , Victor , 1922-1985 , Professor of Chemistry
Born 1922; educated King's College London, 1939-1940, and University College London; Tuffnell Scholar of University College London, at Aberystwyth, 1942-1944; Demonstrator, 1944-1946, Assistant Lecturer, 1946-1947, and Lecturer, 1947-1956, in Chemistry, King's College London; Research Fellow and Resident Doctor, Cornell University, New York, USA, 1951-1952; Reader in Physical Organic Chemistry, King's College London, 1956-1964; Member of Senate, King's College London, 1958 and 1965-1969; Visiting Senior Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, 1962 and 1966; Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1962, 1963, 1965, University of California, Irvine, USA, 1970, and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1975; Professor of Chemistry, King's College London, 1964-[1985]; Head of Chemistry Department, King's College London 1971-[1985]; Dean of Faculty of Natural Science, King's College London, 1978-1980; Chairman, British Committee on Chemical Education, 1977-1978, and British National Committee for Chemistry, 1978-1984; Member of the Council, Faraday Society, 1963-1966, and the Chemical Society, 1971-1974; Manager, 1983-1984, Member of the Council, Vice-President and Chairman, 1984-1985, of the Davy-Faraday Laboratory Committee of the Royal Institution; Ingold Medal and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1984-1985; died 1985.

Publications: editor of Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry (Academic Press, London and New York, 1963-); pH measurements: their theory and practice (Methuen and Co, London, 1956); Compendium of chemical terminology (Blackwell, Oxford, 1987); editor with Edward Caldin of Proton-transfer reactions (Chapman and Hall, London, 1975).

Presented by the family, 1988.

List of works by Gold published from 1947-1986, [1988].

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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
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Feb 2000 Bibliographies Gold , Victor , 1922-1985 , chemist Secondary documents

Presented by the family, 1988.

List of works by Gold published from 1947-1986, [1988].

Single item

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

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English

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• English