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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 1967
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — Nobel Prize
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Chemistry 1967
Born : 1897-11-09 — Cambridge, United Kingdom
Died : 1978-06-07
“for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy”
Chemistry · 1967
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, born on November 9, 1897, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, was a British chemist known for his work on extremely fast chemical reactions. He passed away on June 7, 1978. In 1967, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of these reactions, which are effected by disturbing the equilibrium using very short pulses of energy.

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Who is Ronald George Wreyford Norrish?
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, born on November 9, 1897, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, was a British chemist known for his work on extremely fast chemical reactions. He passed away on June 7, 1978. In 1967, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of these reactions, which are effected by disturbing the equilibrium using very short pulses of energy.
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1967 — Chemistry
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