Friday 19 June 2015

19-JUNE-1897 :- Birth Of Cyril Norman Hinshelwood , Nobel Prize winner.

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
(born June 19, 1897 - died Oct. 9, 1967) a British chemist who worked on reaction rates and reaction mechanisms, particularly that of the combination of hydrogen and oxygen to form water, one of the most fundamental combining reactions in chemistry. For this work he shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the Soviet scientist Nikolay Semyonov.

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