scholarly journals Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones 16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002 Elected FRS 1950

2003 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 263-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Royal Institute

Ewart Ray Herbert Jones, just ‘ERH’ or ‘Prof’ to his laboratory colleagues but ‘Tim’ to his more intimate friends and family, died on 7 May 2002. He made important contributions to the chemistry of polyenes, poly-ynes, steroids and triterpenes. A leading figure in the profession of chemistry, he steered the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry towards unification, and was first President of the resulting Royal Society of Chemistry.

scholarly journals Anniversaries of other academies and societies

1948 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-143
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Physical Science ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Royal Society Of London

The President, Officers, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London offer their most cordial congratulations to the Chemical Society on this memorable occasion marking the passage of the first hundred years since its birth on the twenty-third of February 1841. Your first President was Thomas Graham, a distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society and our friendly association so auspiciously initiated has been cemented by a common interest in the advance of scientific knowledge and by intimate collaboration from the Foundation to the present day. In 1912 we were gratified to receive a Celebration Address from the Chemical Society in which felicitations were offered as from a daughter to her parent. We were indeed glad to accept the honour so gracefully bestowed and realize that it was a merited tribute to the memory of pioneers in the organization of the community of investigators in the domain of physical science.

Edward Meryon (1807–80) and Charles Darwin's (1809–82) On the Origin of Species

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-201
Author(s):  
Alan E H Emery ◽  
Marcia L H Emery
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Clear Identification ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
Medical Interest ◽  
Royal Medical

London in the first half of the 19th century was a centre of scientific and medical interest. For example, the Royal Society, the Linnean Society, the Geological Society, the Chemical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society were all centred on Burlington House and, not far away, in Berner's Street was the Medical and Chirurgical Society, which in 1834 became the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and later the Royal Society of Medicine. It was also in this period that Edward Meryon became a member of the latter society and subsequently a Council Member, Librarian and Vice-President. His research led to the clear identification for the first time of the disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy and he published his results in the Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1852.

The admission of the first women to the Royal Society of London

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-300 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Solicitor General ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Barriers

An early skirmish in the history of women and the Royal Society was the proposal for the Fellowship of the physicist and engineer Hertha Ayrton, in 1902. This was not accepted, following Counsel’s opinion that she could not be a Fellow because she was a married woman (and the position of unmarried women was very doubtful). If the Society wished to admit women it should apply for a supplemental charter, which would be granted, given the support of a sufficient proportion of the Fellows. In 1906 Hertha Ayrton received the Hughes medal for original discovery in the physical sciences, 50 years ahead of the Society’s next award of a medal to a woman. In 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act removed legal barriers to the admission of women by bodies governed by charter. In the debate on the Bill, Martin Conway, Member of Parliament for the United Universities and a Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries, raised an amendment specifying membership of the learned societies. This was opposed by the Solicitor-General, who declared that learned societies refusing to elect qualified women members would be acting in opposition to the will of the House of Commons and the intentions of the Government, and could be dealt with when their subsidies came before Parliament under the Civil Service Vote (not that they were). The Antiquaries elected women Fellows from 1920, as did the Chemical Society. At the Royal Society, no woman was proposed again until 1943.

The social responsibility of the scientist

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
R. A. Morton
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
Natural Environment Research Council ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Professor Morton was Johnston Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Liverpool, 1994–66. He served on the Council of the Royal Society, 1959–61, and on the Council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1955–61. He was the first Chairman of the British National Committee for Chemical Education and of the Food Additives and Contaminants Committee. He has also served on many committees dealing with vitamins, bread and flour, nutrition and biological research generally. In recent years he has been active on committees of the Natural Environment Research Council.This lecture was given to a varied audience of staff and students at the University College of Aberystwyth on 25th February 1970. The Executive Editor is pleased to be able to publish this interesting and thought-provoking discourse on a problem of ever-growing importance.

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