William Jackson Pope

Sir William Jackson Pope ( born October 31, 1870 in London, † October 17, 1939 ) was a British chemist.

Life

After schooling Pope studied at Finsbury Technical College and the Central Technical College in South Kensington, where he was a member of Henry Edward Armstrong. 1897 he was appointed Head of the Department of Chemistry at Goldsmiths ' Technical and Recreative Institute, before he moved to the Municipal School of Technology at Manchester in 1901.

At the age of 38 years he took the 1908 call as professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge. During his tenure there, he worked and conducted research in many areas such as mustard gas, camphor, Organometallic Chemistry and photosensitizers. However, he was best known for his work on optical activity.

After he had in 1899 described the synthesis and resolution of enantiomeric nitrogen compounds, he repeated these experiments at the University of Cambridge with sulfur and selenium. In 1913 he was one of the participants of the second Solvay Conference on "The Structure of Matter". 1914 was awarded to him because of his important contributions to structural and organic chemistry with the Davy Medal of the Royal Society, the highest British award for scientists in the field of chemistry.

In 1919 he was knighted ( Knight) and henceforth led the noble title " Sir ".

For his scientific work him beyond the membership ( Freedom and Livery ) of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths was awarded one of the traditional, English trade associations within the City of London, and was 1928-1929 whose first Overseer (Prime Warden ).

Source

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1221, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2