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 Desmond Joseph Brown MRSC
16 December 1920 - 1 July 2013
01 July 2013
Mr Bryan Richard Vause BEd MA MRSC
17 February 1936 – 26 May 2013
20 June 2013
Dr Ernest James Newman BCs EurChem CChem FRSC DMS
4 September 1932 - 20 June 2013
20 June 2013
Professor C A Russell CChem FRSC
9 July 1928 – 17 May 2013
17 May 2013
Dr J A Ballantine CChem FRSC
21 February 1934 - 30 April 2013
30 April 2013
Frank Arthur Wadelin CChem FRSC HonFIAT SCIMem
11 August 1921 – 31 March 2013
20 April 2013
Dr William Frederick Coulson BSc PhD CChem FRSC
12 February 1934 – 21 March 2013
10 April 2013
Professor David R Williams PhD DSc OBE EurChem CChem FRSC FRSA FRSM
20 March 1941 – 21 March 2013
10 April 2013
Emeritus Professor Peter Plesch FRSC
14 February 1918 – 5 March 2013
31 March 2013
Dr Norman Lloyd CChem FRSC
6 July 1928 - 17 March 2013
17 March 2013
Dr Terry Roberts FRSC
19 April 1943 - 27 November 2012
27 November 2012
Dr Ray Elliott
19 December 1954 - 11 June 2012
11 June 2012
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