Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
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Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, FRS was a British chemist. After enlisting in the Coldstream Guards, he was seconded to the Department of Explosives Supply and did research into munitions. After the
1932 portrait by Walter Stoneman
Henry Tizard
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Sir Henry Thomas Tizard was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led
Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
…quantities of synthetic ammonia using the Haber process. Later that year he joined the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, where he succeeded Henry Tizard as Reader in Thermodynamics in 1923. He resumed work that he had commenced in Berlin on the vapour pressure of metals. He wrote seven papers on the…
Henry Tizard (1945)