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Christopher Kelk Ingold
British chemist (1893-1970) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 77
Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive...
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His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 now known as the Hughes-Ingold symbols. He also was a co-author of the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules. Ingold is regarded as one of the chief pioneers of physical organic chemistry.
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Ben FeringaBoth received James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
Ronald George Wreyford NorrishBoth received Meldola Medal and Prize
Stanislao CannizzaroBoth received Faraday Lectureship Prize
Michael GrätzelBoth received Paracelsus Prize
Viktor MeyerBoth received Davy Medal
Jean Charles Galissard de MarignacBoth received Davy Medal