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.
John (Eric) Riordan
1937 – 2020
31 December 2020
Mervyn Peel BSc MSc PhD MRSC
1925 – 2020
31 December 2020
Professor Elizabeth Hounsell PhD CChem FRSC
1950 – 2020
31 December 2020
Professor Glyn O. Phillips Ph.D., DSc., Hon DSc., Hon LlD, FLSW, CChem., FRSC
1927 – 2020
31 December 2020
Dr John Arthur Knight FRSC
1933 – 2020
18 December 2020
R. Parthasarathy
11 August 1938 – 18 October 2020
18 October 2020
Professor Colin Mortimer
18 February 1927 – 11 September 2020
11 September 2020
Brian Poulson
31 July 1937 – 5 April 2020
05 April 2020
Professor Budalur Thyagarajan
14 July 1929 - 23 March 2020
23 March 2020
Dr John Dalton Wright
7 June 1941 – 22 March 2020
22 March 2020
Dr John Harbridge CChem MRSC
3 July 1939 – 18 March 2020
18 March 2020
John Buekett CChem MRSC SCIMem
16 July 1932 – 13 February 2020
13 February 2020
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:
- be for a member who has passed away within the last twelve months
- 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
You can also supply a photo if you wish. It must:
- be portrait and at least half a megabyte in size
- be a separate file in jpg or png format and not within a Word or other document
- not contain other people
- have permission to be published from relevant people