Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson

Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson (12 February 1926 – 11 November 2016) was a British chemist and academic administrator. He was Principal of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) from 1968 to 1988, and Principal of its successor, University of Wales College, Cardiff, from 1988 to 1993. He was previously a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and Professor of Chemistry at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.^[1][2][3][4]

Honours

In the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, it was announced that Trotman-Dickenson had been appointed a Knight Bachelor, and therefore granted the title sir, in recognition of his service as Principal of University of Wales, College of Cardiff.^[5] On 5 December 1989, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.^[6]

In 1963, Trotman-Dickenson the Tilden Lecturer for the Chemical Society.^[7] In 1995, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Wales.^[4]

Selected works

• Trotman-Dickenson, A. F. (1955). Gas kinetics. Butterworth's Scientific Publications. ISBN 978-1114643048.
• Trotman-Dickenson, A. F. (1959). Free radicals: An introduction. New York: Wiley.
• Trotman-Dickenson, A. F.; Milne, G. S. (1967). Tables of Bimolecular Gas Reactions. National Bureau of Standards.
• Bailar, J. C.; Trotman-Dickenson, A. F., eds. (1973). Comprehensive inorganic chemistry. Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 978-0080172750.

References

1. "Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson". cardiff.ac.uk. Cardiff University. 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
2. "Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson, scientist and university administrator – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
3. Grove, Jack (1 December 2016). "Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson, 1926-2016". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
4. "TROTMAN-DICKENSON, Sir Aubrey (Fiennes)". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
5. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 51772. pp. 1–2. 16 June 1989. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
6. The London Gazette: no. 52009. p. 221. 5 January 1990. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
7. "Tilden Prizes Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.