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Richard Newland Dixon (25 December 1930—25 May 2021) FRS was a British chemist noted for his work in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter.[1]
He was born in Borough Green, Kent the son of Robert T and Lilian Dixon He was educated at The Judd School, King's College London (BSc, 1951) and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (PhD, 1955).[2] He married Alison Birks in 1954.[3]
From 1969, his career was based at the University of Bristol, starting as Chair of Theoretical Chemistry. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986[4] and awarded the Rumford Medal in 2004.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Bristol University - News from the University". Bristol University. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
- ^ ‘DIXON, Prof. Richard Newland’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
- ^ Google Books International Who's Who
- ^ Ashfold, M. N. R. (2022). "Richard Newland Dixon. 25 December 1930—25 May 2021". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 73: 157–175. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2022.0005. hdl:1983/22adb274-51f0-4196-b922-e4481ec7114e. S2CID 249204363.
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