Robert Haszeldine

Robert Neville Haszeldine FRS, FRSC (3 May 1925 – 13 October 2016) was a British chemist.

Life

He was educated at Stockport Grammar School and the University of Birmingham. Moving to the University of Cambridge he rose to Assistant Director of Research,[1] before becoming Professor of Chemistry and Principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.[2]

He had a two-acre garden in Great Langdale, Cumbria, which was regularly opened to the public under the National Garden Scheme.[3][4]

He died on 13 October 2016 at the age of 91.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Ronald Eric Banks (2000). Fluorine chemistry at the millennium: fascinated by fluorine. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-043405-6.
  2. ↑ http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Fellows/1900-99.html
  3. ↑ Copt Howe
  4. ↑ "Hail the glory of an English country garden". The Independent. London. 27 March 2005.
  5. ↑ Robert Haszeldine (OS 1942) Stockport Grammar school
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