Cyril Norman Hinshelwood:
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was a British chemist and Nobel laurate.
Birth:
June 19, 1897 in London, England
Death:
October 9, 1967 in London, England
Claim to Fame:
Hinshelwood was a British chemist who was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize with Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov for their work on the mechanisms of chemical reactions. Hinshelwood investigated the rates and mechanism of chain reactions such as the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen to form water. His later work was on the chemical changes that occur on bacterial cell walls that were important to future antibiotic research.
