John Shipley Rowlinson

Sir John Shipley Rowlinson ( born May 12, 1926 in Handforth, near Manchester ) is a British chemist and historian of science.

Life and work

Rowlinson attended Rossall School in Fleetwood. At Trinity College, University of Oxford, he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry (BA 1947, B.Sc. 1948). In JD Lambert, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the energy transfer between gaseous molecules during ultrasonic atomisation. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked at the Naval Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin before he went as a research assistant at the University of Manchester, where he later worked as a lecturer (1954 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in 1957 ).

In 1961 Rowlinson Professor of Chemical Technology at Imperial College London. In 1974 he became professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford. 1976 was one of the founding members Rowlins the Royal Academy of Engineering. Rowlinson made ​​important contributions to thermodynamics, in particular for understanding the physical chemistry of gas-liquid contact and surfaces ( surface chemistry ).

1993 Rowlinson retired, but still remain as a Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford University. After his retirement, he was concerned more with the history of science, especially to John Diderik van der Waals and intermolecular forces. From 1994 to 1999 worked as Rowlinson Physical Sciences Secretary Member of the line of the Royal Society.

Awards (selection)

Writings (selection )

  • Liquids and Liquid Mixtures. (1959, 2nd edition 1969, 3rd edition 1982)
  • The Perfect Gas. (1963)
  • The Physics of Simple Liquids. (1968) with H.N.V. Temperley and G. S. Rushbrooke.
  • Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers. (1975) with K.E. Bed and G. Saville.
  • Molecular Theory of capillarity. (1982, reprint 2003) With B. Widom.
  • J. D. van der Waals: On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States. (1988)
  • Van der Waals and Molecular Science. (1996 ) with A. Ya. Kipnis and B.E Yavelov.
  • Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces. (2002)
Knight Bachelor United States Naval Research Laboratory University of Wisconsin System Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society) American Academy of Arts and Sciences Benjamin Widom American Chemical Society Royal Society of Chemistry Integrated Authority File
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