Über die Geschwindigkeit chemischer Umwandlungen fester Stoffe

Hinshelwood, C. N.; Bowen, E. J.

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“…Further work was also done on oxidation of phosphine [67] and carbon monoxide [68]. He also participated in the research of Harold Hartley 25 (1878-1772) concerned to the thermal decomposition of solids [69][70][71]. 21 Hinshelwood Nobel prize in chemistry (1956) was shared with N.N.…”

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A Brief Introduction to the History of Chemical Kinetics

Ptáček¹,

Opravil²,

Šoukal³

2018

Introducing the Effective Mass of Activated Complex and the Discussion on the Wave Function of This Instanton

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This chapter begins with a general overview of the content of this work, which explains the structure and mutual relation between discussed topics. The following text provides brief historical background to chemical kinetics, lays the foundation of transition state theory (TST), and reaction thermodynamics from the early Wilhelmy quantitative study of acid-catalyzed conversion of sucrose, through the deduction of mathematical models to explain the rates of chemical reactions, to the transition state theory (absolute rate theory) developed by Eyring, Evans, and Polanyi. The concept of chemical kinetics and equilibrium is then introduced and described in the historical context.

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A Brief Introduction to the History of Chemical Kinetics

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 1897-1967

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Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc.

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was born in London on 19 June 1897, the only child of Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethel née Smith. His father was of Scottish origin, and once he remarked jokingly that some of his ancestors must have been well enough known because a street in Glasgow is named after them. His mother came from the west country. Several members of his family had artistic leanings but none appears to have had associations with science. As a small child he was taken by his parents to Canada, his father having some business there, and for a short time he was at a Montreal kindergarten, and later at a national school in Toronto for a few months. His health was not good, however, and at his father’s wish, his mother brought him back to England. His father died soon afterwards in 1904. Many years later, sailing back from Montreal down the St Lawrence River past Rimouski, he recalled with obvious emotion his childhood memory of how the pilot had been put off there. He went to Westminster City School, where there were two good science masters, H. F. Brand and E. B. Fisher, with whom he remained life-long friends. The Headmaster, too, E. H. Stevens, was scientist with wide interests who helped him a great deal. Here he won a Brackenbury Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, but was unable to take it up immediately because of the war. From 1916-18 he worked at the Department of Explosives, Queensferry Royal Ordinance Factory, where his remarkable ability was quickly noticed. Before leaving, at a very early age, he became deputy chief chemist of the main laboratory. His work there on the slow decomposition of solid explosives by measuring the gas evolved stimulated his interest in the mechanism of chemical change, which was to be the main theme of nearly all his subsequent scientific research.

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Über die Geschwindigkeit chemischer Umwandlungen fester Stoffe

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A Brief Introduction to the History of Chemical Kinetics

A Brief Introduction to the History of Chemical Kinetics

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 1897-1967

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