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Biography
Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson (12 February 1926 – 11 November 2016) was a British chemist and academic administrator. He was Principal of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) from 1968 to 1988, and Principal of its successor, University of Wales College, Cardiff, from 1988 to 1993. He was previously a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and Professor of Chemistry at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Honours
In the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, it was announced that Trotman-Dickenson had been appointed a Knight Bachelor, and therefore granted the title sir, in recognition of his service as Principal of University of Wales, College of Cardiff. On 5 December 1989, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
In 1963, Trotman-Dickenson was the Tilden Lecturer for the Chemical Society. In 1995, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Wales.
Selected works
- Trotman-Dickenson, A. F. (1955). Gas kinetics. Butterworth's Scientific Publications. ISBN 978-1114643048.
- Trotman-Dickenson, A. F. (1959). Free radicals: An introduction. New York: Wiley.
- Trotman-Dickenson, A. F.; Milne, G. S. (1967). Tables of Bimolecular Gas Reactions. National Bureau of Standards.
- Bailar, J. C.; Trotman-Dickenson, A. F., eds. (1973). Comprehensive inorganic chemistry. Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 978-0080172750.