| 词条 | Frank Stuart Spring |
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Prof Frank Stuart Spring FRS FRSE FRIC FCS (1907–1997) was a 20th-century British organic chemist.[1] LifeHe was born in Great Crosby in Lancashire on 5 September 1907 the fifth of six children of John Spring. He was educated at Waterloo Grammar School in Great Crosby. His father, a master mariner, was killed with his crew of 20 when his ship the Rhineland hit a German mine in the North Sea.[2][3] He received a grant from the Merchant Navy Trust to go to university and studied Chemistry at Liverpool University graduating BSc in 1928. Continuing as a postgraduate he gained a doctorate (PhD) in 1930. In 1930 he began as an assistant lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Manchester rising to be Senior Lecturer by 1946. In 1946 he moved to the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow as Professor of Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1952 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1958. His proposers for the latter were Sir Edmund Hirst, James Pickering Kendall, Neil Campbell, Mowbray Ritchie and Thomas Robert Bolam.[4] In 1959 he left academia to become Director of Laporte Industries based in Luton. He retired in 1971 and died on 1 March 1997 aged 89. FamilyIn 1932 he married Mary Mackintosh daughter of Rev Mackintosh of Heswall. They had a son, John, and daughter, Vivien. References1. ^http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/54/375 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Spring, Frank Stuart}}2. ^{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/5103.html |title=Rhineland |publisher=Uboat.net |accessdate=17 November 2012}} 3. ^http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/54/375.full.pdf 4. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 8 : 1907 births|1997 deaths|Alumni of the University of Liverpool|Academics of the University of Manchester|Fellows of the Royal Society|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|British chemists|Fellows of the Chemical Society |
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