Harold Hartley (chemist) explained

Sir Harold Brewer Hartley
Birth Date:1878 9, df=yes
Birth Place:London, England
Fields:Physical chemistry, mineralogical chemistry
Workplaces:Balliol College, Oxford
Alma Mater:Balliol College, Oxford
Doctoral Advisor:Sir John Conroy[1]
Doctoral Students:E. J. Bowen
Cyril Hinshelwood
Known For:"physical and mineralogical chemistry, including electrical conductivity, ionisation, and electrolytic equilibria in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions"
Awards:Wilhelm Exner Medal (1937)
Hoover Medal (1968)
Signature:Sir Harold Hartley - signature.jpg

Brigadier-General Sir Harold Brewer Hartley [2] (3 September 1878 – 9 September 1972) was a British physical chemist. He moved from academia to important positions in business and industry, including serving as Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Early life

He was the only child of the collector and bibliophile Harold T. Hartley (1851–1943).[3] His mother died in 1884 when he was a young child and his father later remarried. The future academic was educated at Dulwich College,[4] and Balliol College, Oxford. As a tutor at Balliol, he supervised the research of Edmund Bowen and Cyril Hinshelwood.[5]

First World War

Hartley served in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross.

Honours

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours. He was Bedford Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, at Balliol College, University of Oxford.He was knighted in 1928, made KCVO in 1944, GCVO in 1957 and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 1967.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1926.[2] His candidacy citation read:

He gave the address "Man's Use of Energy" as president of the British Association for 1949–1950.[6] He received the Hoover Medal in 1968.

Family

Hartley was married in 1906 to Gertrude, eldest daughter of Arthur Lionel Smith, who was later Master of Balliol College. They had one son and one daughter.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Academic Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology . North Dakota State University, USA . 16 March 2012 . 11 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181211080217/https://www.ndsu.edu/chemistry/files/genealogy-web.pdf . dead .
  2. Ogston . A. G. . Alexander George Ogston. 10.1098/rsbm.1973.0014 . Harold Brewer Hartley 1878–1972 . . 19 . 348–326 . 1973 .
  3. Harold Hartley, Eight-Eight Not Out (London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1939), p. 213.
  4. http://www.dulwich.org.uk/OA_Document_1.aspx?id=1:29462&id=1:29454&id=1:29431/ Dulwich College Web Site – Old Alleynians: Eminent Old Alleynians: Science & Medicine
  5. John Andraos, Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, York University, Canada.
  6. Goldsmith, Maurice. Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Science. 8 December 1950. 112. 2919. 665–670. 10.1126/science.112.2919.665. 14787501. 1950Sci...112..665G.