Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry explained

The Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry is the named Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, established through an endowment of £36,000 in 1913 by the Hall family.^[1] This chair has been occupied by the following chemists:

• 2014- David Alan Leigh FRS
• 2005 - 2014 Ian Hillier
• 1947-1954 Sir Ewart Jones^[2] FRS
• 1944-1947 Sir Edmund Hirst^[3] FRS
• 1938-1944 Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd^[4] FRS
• 1935-1938 Sir Ian Heilbron^[5] FRS
• 1922-1935 Arthur Lapworth^[6] FRS

Notes and References

1. Portrait of a University, 1851-1951: To Commemorate the Centenary of Manchester University, Henry Buckley Charlton, Manchester University Press, 1951.
2. Jones . J. H. . 10.1098/rsbm.2003.0015 . Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones 16 March 1911 - 7 May 2002 Elected FRS 1950 . . 49 . 263 . 2003 . 3650225. free .
3. Robinson . R. . Arthur Lapworth. 1872-1941 . 10.1098/rsbm.1947.0018 . . 5 . 15 . 554 . 1947 .
4. Brown . D. M. . Kornberg . H. . Hans Kornberg. 10.1098/rsbm.1999.0099 . Alexander Robertus Todd, O.M., Baron Todd of Trumpington. 2 October 1907 -- 10 January 1997: Elected F.R.S. 1942 . . 46 . 515 . 2000 .
5. 10.1093/ref:odnb/33799. Heilbron, Sir Ian Morris [formerly Isidor Morris]. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. Alan Cook.
6. Robinson . R. . Arthur Lapworth. 1872-1941 . 10.1098/rsbm.1947.0018 . . 5 . 15 . 554 . 1947 .