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AT a meeting of the Chemical Society held at the Royal Institution on December 15, it was stated that Prof. Robert Robinson, Waynflete professor of chemistry in the University of Oxford, has accepted nomination to the office of president for the period 1939–41, which includes the centenary celebrations of the Society to be held in April 1941. The Long-staff Medal for 1939 has been awarded to Prof. I. M. Heilbron, for his outstanding contributions to the science of chemistry in the field of natural products, especially vitamin A and related natural pigments, the anti-rachitic vitamin D and its precursors, and the constituents of the fish liver oils and of natural resins of the triterpene group. Prof. Heilbron was lecturer in organic chemistry in the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, from 1909 until 1914, and in 1919 became professor of organic chemistry there. In 1920, he proceeded to the University of Liverpool as professor of organic chemistry; in 1933 he held the chair of organic chemistry in the University of Manchester. In 1938, he was appointed professor of organic chemistry at Imperial College, London.
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The Chemical Society. Nature 142, 1109–1110 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421109c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421109c0