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).