Neil Kensington Adam

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Neil Kensington Adam
Born (1891-11-06)6 November 1891
Cambridge
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Institutions University of Sheffield
University College London
University of Southampton
University of Cambridge
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1]

Neil Kensington Adam FRS (6 November 1891 – 19 July 1973) was a British chemist.[1][2][3][4][5]

Education

Adam was born in Cambridge, the son of a Classics don.[6] He studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later became a fellow.

Career

During the First World War, he served at the Royal Naval Airship Service at Kingsnorth, Kent.

He was Sorby Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

He was a Research Associate (1930–1936), and Lecturer (1936–1937) at University College London.[7]

He was a Chair at the University of Southampton.

He was married to Winifred Wright;[1] they were active Christian Scientists.[8] Adam died, aged 81, in Southampton.

References

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  3. "Neil Kensington Adam (1891-1973), Professor of chemistry", National Portrait Gallery
  4. The physics and chemistry of surfaces, Oxford University Press, 1952
  5. Physical chemistry, Clarendon Press, 1956
  6. The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge praelections of 1906, Editor Christopher Stray, Cambridge Philological Society, 2005, ISBN 978-0-906014-27-1
  7. http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/resources/history/people/adam.html
  8. http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/biog.html