Jocelyn Field Thorpe

Jocelyn Field Thorpe
Born (1872-12-01)1 December 1872
Clapham, London
Died 10 June 1940(1940-06-10) (aged 67)
Cooden Beach, East Sussex
Nationality English
Known for Thorpe reaction
Awards Davy Medal (1922)

Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe FRS[1] (1 December 1872 – 10 June 1940) was an English chemist who discovered the Thorpe reaction and the Thorpe-Ingold effect.[2][3]

Born in London on 1 December 1872, one of nine children and the sixth son, of Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Thorpe of the Middle Temple. He attended Worthing College, King's College, London, and the Royal College of Science. He earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry under Viktor Meyer at the Heidelberg University.[4] Britain adopted a tear gas ethyl iodoacetate, in January 1915 after it was identified by Jocelyn Thorpe, professor of organic chemistry at Imperial College, University of London, which was codenamed ‘SK’ after the South Kensington location. During the war he also worked with Martha Annie Whiteley on the development of syntheses of drugs that had previously been imported from Germany.[5]

Honours and Awards

Thorpe received the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1922. He was knighted in 1939.

References

  1. ↑ Ingold, C. K. (1941). "Jocelyn Field Thorpe. 1872-1939". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 530–544. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0020. JSTOR 769165.
  2. ↑ Stevens, H. R.; Kon, G. A. R.; Linstead, R. P.; Pinchbeck, G. (1941). "Obituary notices: George Ward Hedley, 1871?1941; Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe, 1872?1940; Sir William Fitzthomas Wyley, 1852?1940". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 444. doi:10.1039/JR9410000444.
  3. ↑ Whiteley, M. A.; Kon, G. A. R. (1940). "Obituary". The Analyst. 65 (774): 483. Bibcode:1940Ana....65..483W. doi:10.1039/AN9406500483.
  4. ↑ Armstrong, E. F. (1940). "Sir Jocelyn Thorpe, C.B.E., F.R.S". Nature. 145 (3687): 1001. Bibcode:1940Natur.145.1001A. doi:10.1038/1451001a0.
  5. ↑ Creese, Mary RS (1997). "Martha Annie Whiteley (1866-1956): Chemist and Editor" (PDF). Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. 8: 42–45.


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