Sir Theodore Morris Sugden CBE FRS | |
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 Sir (Theodore) Morris Sugden © Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge | |
| Born | 31 December 1919 Triangle, England |
| Died | 3 January 1984 (aged 64) Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Sowerby Bridge and District Secondary School |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | Marian Florence Cotton |
| Children | Andrew Morris |
| Awards | See list |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cambridge University Shell Thornton Research Centre Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
Sir Theodore Morris Sugden FRS, (31 December 1919 – 3 January 1984) was a British chemist who specialised in combustion research.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Theodore Morris Sugden (Morris) was born in the village of Triangle, the only child of Florence (née Chadwick) and Frederick Morris Sugden, a clerk in a mill. After attending Sowerby Bridge and District Secondary School he gained an open scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge in 1938, where he read chemistry and was awarded a First in 1940. That year he began research under physicist W C Price on the measurement of precise ionization potentials of molecules. He later switched to working with R G W Norrish for war-work on the suppression of gun flash.
Sugden’s later research activities were in the fields of flame studies, flame photometry, ionization in flames, and microwave spectroscopy.[3][1]
Appointments
[edit]- University Demonstrator in Physical Chemistry, 1946
- Humphrey Owen Jones Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, 1950
- Reader in Physical Chemistry, 1960
- Director of Research at the Shell Thornton Research Centre, near Chester, 1964
- Director of Thornton Research Centre, 1967
- Chief Executive of Shell Research Limited, 1974-1975
- Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1976
Awards and honours
[edit]- Elected to the Royal Society, 1963
- Awarded an honorary D Tech. by University of Bradford, 1967
- Awarded an honorary doctorate of science by York University, Ontario, 1973
- Made a CBE, 1975
- Received the Davy Medal, 1975
- Awarded an honorary doctorate of science by University of Liverpool, 1977
- Awarded an honorary doctorate of science by University of Leeds, 1978
- He was an Honorary Fellow of Jesus and Queens' Colleges, Cambridge.
- Elected a Corresponding Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1975.
- Chairman of the Combustion Institute Committee, 1970–1982, and an International Vice-President, 1974–1982.
- President of the Chemical Society, 1978-1979
- Physical Secretary of the Royal Society, 1978-1984
- Knighted in the New Year Honours List, 1983
Family
[edit]Sugden married Marian Florence Cotton in 1945. They had one child, Andrew Morris, born in 1954. He graduated from Oxford in Botany in 1975, and later gained a doctorate in tropical rainforest ecology. He undertook an expedition to the Serranía de Macuira in northern Colombia, publishing a checklist to the plants of this area along with Enrique Forero. He has subsequently followed an editorial career.[4]
Sir Theodore Morris Sugden died at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge on 3 January 1984; he was cremated in Cambridge on the 10th. The Sugden Award for combustion research is named in his honour.
Lady Marian Sugden died in December 2009.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Quinn, C. P.; B. A. Thrush (December 1986). "Theodore Morris Sugden". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 32: 570–596. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1986.0019. JSTOR 770124.
- ^ "Sugden, Sir (Theodore) Morris". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31733. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Sugden, T M; Kenney, C N (1965). Microwave spectroscopy of gases. London: Van Nostrand.
- ^ "Sugden, Andrew Morris. (fl. 1982-1987)". Jstor: Global Plants. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ^ "The Queens' College Record, 2010". Cambridge: Queens' College. 2010: 6.
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