About Cyril N. Hinshelwood
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry. == Education == Born in London, his parents were Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethel Frances née Smith. He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a flat in Chelsea where he lived for the rest of his life. He was educated at Westminster City School and Balliol College, Oxford. == Career == During the First World War, Hinshelwood was a chemist in an explosives factory. He was a tutor in Trinity College, Oxford, from 1921 to 1937 and was Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford from 1937. He served on several advisory councils on scientific matters to the British Government. His early studies of molecular kinetics led to the publication of Thermodynamics for Students of Chemistry and The Kinetics of Chemical Change in 1926. With Harold Warris Thompson he studied the explosive reaction of hydrogen and oxygen and described the phenomenon of chain reaction.
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