Anthony Ledwith
Anthony Ledwith CBE FRS (4 August 1933 – 5 January 2015) was a British chemist.[1]
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| Born | 14 August 1933 |
| Died | 5 January 2015 (aged 81) |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool (PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Sheffield |
| Thesis | Some new types of polymerization (1957) |
Education
Ledwith was awarded a PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1957. His doctoral advisor was C. E. H. Bawn.[1]
Career and research
He was Campbell Brown Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Liverpool and Director of Research at Pilkington, from 1984 to 1996. He was head of chemistry at the University of Sheffield.[2]
Awards and honours
He was president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1998 to 2000, [3] and served on the council of the Royal Society from 1999 to 2001 having been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995.[1]
Personal
Ledwith was married with four children and had 8 grandchildren. In January 2015, he died at the age of 81.[1]
References
- Feast, W. J. (2018). "Anthony Ledwith CBE. 14 August 1933 – 5 January 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 64: 285–298. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0029. ISSN 0080-4606.
- "Professor Anthony Ledwith, CBE. FRS, DSc". Loughborough University. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- "Royal Society of Chemistry 1980 to Present Day". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
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