Alexander Normand

Prof Alexander Robert Normand FRSE FRSGS (1880–1958) was a Scottish chemist and geologist.[1]

Life

He was born in Edinburgh on 4 March 1880 the son of James Normand of Kirkton Lodge in Murrayfield.[2] He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh then studied Chemistry at Edinburgh University graduating MA BSc and then gaining a PhD at postgraduate level.

In 1934 he became Professor of Chemistry at Wilson College in Bombay. In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Pickering Kendall, John Edwin Mackenzie, Thomas Bolam and Ernest Bowman Ludlam.[3]

He died at 33 Moray Place on Edinburgh's fashionable Moray Estate on 18 July 1958.

Family

In 1909 he married Margaret Elizabeth Murray.

References

  1. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F68639
  2. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1880
  3. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.



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