Obituaries of RSC members
We acknowledge the contribution made to the chemical sciences by our members who have passed away.
Please use the contact details on this page to notify us of the death of a member. The obituaries here are written by friends, family and colleagues.
Dr Min Enze
8 February 1924 - 7 March 2016
07 March 2016
Dr William Charlie Geddes
1938 – February 2016
28 February 2016
Professor Frank Paine CChem FRSC
31 October 1920 – 15 February 2016
28 February 2016
Norman Albert Julius Luff MSc CChem FRSC
22 June 1930 – 12 December 2015
12 December 2015
Professor John Alistair Duffy CChem FRSC
24 September 1932 – 02 November 2015
02 November 2015
Professor Emeritus Kyösti Kontturi FRSC
26 February 1949 – 28 September 2015
21 October 2015
Mr Ray Knowland CBE CChem FRSC
18 August 1930 – 14 October 2015
14 October 2015
Professor Daniel Douglas Eley OBE FRS FRSC
1 October 1914 – 3 September 2015
03 September 2015
Mr Michael John Lidgard CChem MRSC
9 May 1949 – 4 June 2015
04 June 2015
Dr Graham Ruecroft CSci CChem FRSC
30 July 1960 - 4 June 2015
04 June 2015
Dr David Ager CChem MRSC
10 April 1953 - 25 April 2015
25 April 2015
Professor Shalom Sarel MRSC
25 October 1918 – 30 March 2015
30 March 2015
How to send us an obituary
To notify us of the death of a member or if you have any questions, please get in touch via email. The obituary should:
- include the dates of birth and passing away
- be no longer than one A4 page (about eight paragraphs)
- mention the contribution the person who has died made to the chemical sciences
- be accompanied by a photo as a separate file, which
- is landscape and at least half a megabyte in size
- is in jpg or png format and not within a Word or other document
- does not contain other people
- you have permission to use