Dr. W. F. K. Wynne-Jones

Abstract

DR. W. F. K. WYNNE-JONES, whose election to the chair of chemistry in University College, Dundee, in succession to Prof. A. McKenzie is announced on p. 843, was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, whence he proceeded to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and to Balliol College, Oxford. Later, as research assistant to Prof. J. W. McBain at the University of Bristol, he carried out experimental work on the Gibbs adsorption equation. In 1927-28, during the tenure of a Rockefeller fellowship, Dr. Wynne-Jones undertook a research on the problem of acids and bases under the direction of Prof. J. N". Bronsted in the University of Copenhagen, In 1933, he was awarded a Leverhulme fellowship which he held at Princeton University ; where, in the laboratory of Prof. H. S. Taylor, he worked on the extent of the electrolytic dissociation of heavy water and the comparative rates of ionization of hydrogen and deuterium. In 1935 he published, in collaboration with Prof. H. Eyring, an important paper on the absolute rate of reactions in condensed phases. His recent work has furnished new information on the mechanism of ionic reactions. Since 1928, Dr. Wynne-Jones has held a lectureship in physical chemistry at the University of Reading.