Frederick George Mann

British organic chemist

Born(1897-06-29)29 June 1897

London, England

Died29 March 1982(1982-03-29) (aged 84)

Cambridge, England

CitizenshipUnited KingdomEducationCambridge University (PhD 1923, ScD 1932) AwardsTilden Prize (1943)Scientific careerFieldsOrganic chemistryInstitutionsCambridge UniversityDoctoral advisorWilliam PopeDoctoral studentsJoseph Chatt

Frederick George Mann FRS (29 June 1897 – 29 March 1982) was a British organic chemist.

Academic career

He completed his doctoral studies at Downing College, Cambridge under Sir William Pope, graduating in 1923. He continued at Downing as an assistant lecturer until 1930, when he was appointed to a lectureship at Trinity College. He spent his entire academic career at Cambridge, retiring in 1964.^[1]

Scientific contributions

Mann's research spanned a variety of topics, many at the interface between organic and inorganic chemistry, including investigations of aliphatic polyamines, phosphines, arsines and their complexes; heterocyclic compounds of phosphorus and arsenic and their metal complexes; polycyclic nitrogen compounds; the structure and optical properties of transition metal complexes; stereochemistry, and cyanine dyes.^[2]^[3]

Honours and awards

He won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Prize in 1943, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1947.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Frederick George Mann". Trinity College Chapel. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b Millar, I. T. (1984). "Frederick George Mann, 29 June 1897 - 29 March 1982". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 30. The Royal Society: 407–441. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1984.0015. ISSN 0080-4606. JSTOR 769833.
^ "Frederick G. Mann publications". Academictree.org. Retrieved 24 July 2020.