Leslie Crombie
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Leslie Crombie FRS FRSC (10 June 1923 – 3 August 1999) was a British chemist.[1]
He was educated at King's College London, where he completed his PhD.[2] He was a lecturer at Imperial College London from 1950 to 1958, professor of organic chemistry at University College, Cardiff from 1963 to 1969, and Sir Jesse Boot Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham from 1969 to 1988, where he was later made an emeritus professor.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of King's College London.
References
- ^ "Leslie Crombie. 10 June 1923 — 3 August 1999". Royal Society Publishing. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ^ ‘CROMBIE, Prof. Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
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