| LC control no. | n 86864176 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Linstead, R. P. (Reginald Patrick), Sir |
| Variant(s) | Linstead, Patrick, Sir Linstead, Reginald Patrick, Sir |
| Other standard no. | 53193313 http://viaf.org/viaf/53193313 0000000116437790 http://isni.org/isni/0000000116437790 Q7147026 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7147026 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Patrick_Linstead 186524 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/186524 156456842 http://d-nb.info/gnd/156456842 075983915 http://www.idref.fr/075983915 http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101034549 mp80623 34549 |
| Associated country | England Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1902-08-28 |
| Death date | 1966-09-22 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Chemistry, Organic |
| Affiliation | University of Sheffield Harvard University Imperial College of Science and Technology Royal College of Science (Great Britain) Royal Society (Great Britain) Chemical Society (Great Britain) Royal Institute of Chemistry |
| Profession or occupation | Chemists University and college faculty members College teachers Chemistry teachers |
| Found in | LCCN 56-479: His A course in modern techniques of organic chemistry, 1955 (hdg.: Linstead, Reginald Patrick, Sir; usage: R.P. Linstead) LC data base, 11-6-86 (hdg.: Linstead, Reginald Patrick, Sir; usage: Sir Patrick Linstead) OCLC, December 16, 2016 (access points: Linstead, R. P. (Reginald Patrick), Sir; Linstead, R. P.; Linstead, Patrick, Sir, 1902- ; Linstead, Reginald Patrick; Linstead, Reginald Patrick (1902-1966); usage: R.P. Linstead; Reginald Patrick Linstead; Patrick Linstead; Sir Patrick Linstead, CBE, FRS) Wikipedia, December 16, 2016: Patrick Linstead (Sir (Reginald) Patrick Linstead CBE, DSc, HonDSc, DIC, HonFCGI, HonMIMM, FRS (28 August 1902, in London-22 September 1966, in London) was an English chemist; in 1938 appointed Firth Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield; following year appointed professor of organic chemistry at Harvard University; later became the Rector of Imperial College) Oxford dictionary of national biography online, December 16, 2016 (Linstead, Sir (Reginald) Patrick (1902-1966), organic chemist and educationist, was born in London on 28 August 1902; educated at the City of London School and, from 1920, at Imperial College, South Kensington, where he began his study of chemistry; obtained his PhD in 1926; in 1938 moved to Sheffield, where Linstead had been appointed as Firth professor of chemistry at the university; following the death of his wife in childbirth that year Linstead accepted a chair of organic chemistry at Harvard University; in 1942, on extended leave from Harvard, he returned to the United Kingdom as deputy director of scientific research at the Ministry of Supply; resigned the Harvard chair in 1945 and was appointed director of the government Chemical Research Laboratory at Teddington. After four years he returned to Imperial College as professor of organic chemistry; subsequently he became head of the reintegrated chemistry department when Professor H.V.A. Briscoe retired in 1954. In 1953 he was appointed dean of the Royal College of Science. In October 1954 the rector of Imperial College died suddenly and Linstead was appointed as his successor; his term of office began in 1955; appointed CBE in 1946 and knighted in 1959. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society in 1940 and became its vice-president (1959-65) and foreign secretary (1960-65). He also served as vice-president of the Chemical Society three times between 1946 and 1957, and of the Royal Institute of Chemistry in 1949-51) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34549> |
| Associated language | eng |
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