| 词条 | Neil Kensington Adam |
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| name = Neil Kensington Adam | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1891|11|5}} | birth_place = Cambridge, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1973|7|19|1891|11|5}} | death_place = Southampton, England | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = University of Sheffield University College London University of Southampton University of Cambridge | alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Fellow of the Royal Society[1] | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }}Neil Kensington Adam {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FRIC|sep=yes}} (5 November 1891 – 19 July 1973) was a British chemist.[1] EducationAdam was born in Cambridge, the first of three children of James Adam (1860–1907), a Classics don,[2] and his wife Adela Marion (née Kensington) (1866–1944).[1] His sister Barbara was a noted sociologist and criminologist, while his brother Captain Arthur Innes Adam was killed in France on 16 September 1916.[3] His maternal uncle was Sir Alfred Kensington a Judge in the Chief Court of the Punjab. Adam was educated at Winchester College, and then studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later became a fellow (1915–1923).[4] He graduated BA in 1913, received his MA in 1919, and Sc.D in 1928.[1] CareerDuring the First World War, he served at the Royal Naval Air Service airship station at Kingsnorth, Kent, working on problems associated with rubber-proofing fabric for airships, and other chemical problems.[1] Adam was Sorby Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield from 1921 to 1929,[4] then a Research Associate (1930–1936) and Lecturer (1936–1937) at University College London.[5] He was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southampton from 1937 until 1957.[4] Personal lifeAdam was married to Winifred Wright;[1] they were active Christian Scientists.[6] Adam died, aged 81, in Southampton.[1] Publications
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite journal |last1=Carrington |first1=A. |last2=Hills |first2=G. J. |last3=Webb |first3=K. R. |title=Neil Kensington Adam 1891–1973 |url=http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/20/1.full.pdf |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1974.0001 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=20 |pages=1–26 |year=1974 |jstor=769631}} 2. ^{{cite book |title=The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge praelections of 1906: reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jahfAAAAMAAJ&q=Neil+Kensington+Adam&dq=Neil+Kensington+Adam&hl=en&ei=ioblS4OrBMKAlAfMzLX6Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCQ |editor-first=Christopher |editor-last=Stray |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge Philological Society |isbn=978-0-906014-27-1}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/294703/ADAM,%20ARTHUR%20INNES |title=Casualty Details: Arthur Innes Adam |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |accessdate=27 March 2017}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!2306!0&profile=newcustom-icos |title=Neil K. Adam papers, 1925–1970 |work=Horizon Information Portal |accessdate=27 March 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/resources/history/people/adam.html |title=Neil Kensington Adam (1891–1973) |work=University College London |accessdate=27 March 2017}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/biog.html |first=Peter |last=Morris |title=Chemist's Biographies |work=Queen Mary University of London |accessdate=27 March 2017}} External links
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