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.
Professor M J Blandamer CChem FRSC
19 December 1934 – 15 February 2014
20 March 2014
Professor Graham Hills CChem FRSC
9 April 1926 – 9 February 2014
10 March 2014
Professor Dennis Price
15 August 1934 – 30 December 2013
20 January 2014
Dr JAR (Alistair) MacLean CChem FRSC
9 January 1918 - 17 December 2013
17 December 2013
Mr John Sharp BSc CChem FRSC Hon. MRPharmS CBiol MiBiol FIQA
19 October 1930 – 22 November 2013
22 November 2013
Dr Roy Norman Butlin BA MPhil PhD MRSC CChem
31 May 1938 - 22 November 2013
22 November 2013
Mr Alfred Coombes CChem FRSC
23 April 1916 – 24 October 2013
20 November 2013
Mr Ronald Buxton
26 June 1946 – 9 October 2013
09 October 2013
Albert George Fishburn CChem FRSC
1910 - 2013
03 September 2013
Professor Alan Carrington CBE CChem FRSC FRS
6 January 1934 – 31 August 2013
31 August 2013
Dr Michael Anderson Leonard CChem FRSC
08 July 2013
Dr Trevor H Grenby CChem FRSC
5 June 1934 – 6 July 2013
06 July 2013
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