William Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones
William Francis Kenrick Wynne- Jones, Baron Wynne -Jones of Abergele in the County of Denbighshire ( born May 8, 1903 in India, † 8 November 1982 ) was a British chemist, professor of Physical Chemistry and Labour Party politician, who 1964 as a Life peer because of the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Study, research stays and Lecturer
Wynne- Jones graduated after attending the Monkton Combe School in Bath studying chemistry at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth and joined the staff in the laboratory of Balliol College and Trinity College, University of Oxford after graduation. There he worked as an assistant to Harold Hartley on the conductivity of acids in methanol and ethanol solutions. He then moved to the University of Bristol, where he was assistant in the run by James William McBain working group on surface chemistry. Already during his studies he was by his acquaintance with John Strachey member of the Labour Party.
With financial support from an international research fellowship he worked 1927-1929 at the Department of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted at the University of Copenhagen. His interest in physical chemistry was characterized not only by contact with Brønsted but mainly by other British guest researchers like Ronald " Ronnie " Percy Bell and Edward A. Guggenheim. At the University of Copenhagen and his interest rate, his later main area of research began.
After completing his work at University of Copenhagen, he became in 1929 a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading and taught there until 1938. During this time he worked in 1934 for a year as a visiting scientist ( Leverhulme Research Fellow ) in the directed by Hugh Stott Taylor Laboratory of Princeton University and dealt mainly with the ionic dissociation there of heavy water.
High school teacher and member of the House of Lords
1938 he was appointed Professor and Chair of Chemistry at University College, Dundee, which belonged at the time to the University of St Andrews. There he continued his work on the dissociation of acids along with DH Everett.
During the Second World War Wynne- Jones also worked alongside his teaching career in Dundee between 1943 and 1945 as Head of the Chemical Department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE ) at Farnborough. There he developed his interest in storage batteries and rocket propellants.
After he was appointed professor of physical chemistry at the time to the University of Durham belonging to King's College in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1947, he continues his work in the field of storage batteries and rocket fuels continued and built the low initially equipped department to an extensive research facility especially in the field electrochemistry and reinforced in the subsequent period, the already existing relationship with the local industry. Through this industrially oriented projects, the financial research funding increased. Later, he was also director of the Newcastle -based Northern Coal Research Laboratoriener itself (Northern Coke Research Laboratories) and performed with HE Blayden important contributions to the field of scientific research cabbage.
He was raised due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Wynne -Jones of Abergele in the County of Denbighshire to the peerage by a Letters Patent dated 17 December 1964 and was so until his death in the House of Lords than at Member. As such, he was also active as a scientific adviser to the Labour Party for nuclear, fuel and energy policy.
Baron Wynne -Jones was 1965-1968 and Pro- Vice-Chancellor of King's College in 1963 resulting Newcastle University. At the same time he was involved in the expansion of higher education in North East England, such as the Rutherford College of Technology, which expanded in 1969 to Newcastle Polytechnic and now as Northumbria University was awarded university status in 1992. Wynne- Jones held from 1976 until his death in 1982, the function of the Registrar of Newcastle Polytechnic.
In addition to his membership in the House of Lords he was active in the North Atlantic Assembly, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and was 1973-1977 Chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Committee on nuclear energy this meeting.
Publications
- The activity of hydrogen ion in Aqueous solutions of hydrogen fluoride, co-author John Lawson Hudleston, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1924, 125
- Hydrogen -bonded solvent systems, 1968