Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson (12 February 1926 – 11 November 2016) was a British chemist and academic administrator.
Biography
editTrotman-Dickenson was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire on 12 February 1926. His father, Edward Newton Trotman-Dickenson was a cotton merchant and his mother was Violet Murray, née Nicoll. He attended Winchester College and continued to study Chemistry with a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford in 1948.[1]
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 of Cardiff, from 1988 to 1993. He additionally served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales for three terms: 1975 to 1977, 1983 to 1985, and 1991 to 1993. He was previously a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and Professor of Chemistry at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.[2][3][4][5]
On 11 July 1953 he married economist, Donata Irena (Danusia) Hewell and they had three children together. He died on 11 November 2016, at his home in Siston Court as a result of heart failure.[1] Lady Trotman-Dickenson died on 28 June 2024, at the age of 95.[6]
Honours
editIn 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.[7] On 5 December 1989, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.[8]
In 1963, Trotman-Dickenson was the Tilden Lecturer for the Chemical Society.[9] In 1995, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Wales.[5]
Selected works
edit- 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. Bibcode:1967tbgr.book.....T.
- Bailar, J. C.; Trotman-Dickenson, A. F., eds. (1973). Comprehensive inorganic chemistry. Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 978-0080172750.
References
edit- ^ a b Smith, Brian (9 January 2020). Dickenson, Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman- (1926–2016). doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111566. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson". cardiff.ac.uk. Cardiff University. 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ "Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson, scientist and university administrator – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ Grove, Jack (1 December 2016). "Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson, 1926-2016". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ a b "TROTMAN-DICKENSON, Sir Aubrey (Fiennes)". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ Trotman-Dickenson
- ^ "No. 51772". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1989. pp. 1–2.
- ^ "No. 52009". The London Gazette. 5 January 1990. p. 221.
- ^ "Tilden Prizes Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.