William Hobson Mills, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English chemist
Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1873
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 22-Feb-1959
Profession: chemist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About William Hobson Mills
- William Hobson Mills FRS (6 July 1873 – 22 February 1959) was a British organic chemist.He studied chemistry at University of Cambridge and University of Tübingen and was appointed University Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Fellow and Lecturer of Jesus College, Cambridge.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923 and according to his membership citation was "[d]istinguished as an investigator and teacher in organic chemistry.
- Prepared, in 1910, the first, and only example of an optically active compound which contains no asymmetric atom, but owes its asymmetry to an oxime grouping.
- Solved in 1919-1921 the problem of the constitutions of the photographic sensitisers known as the isocyanines and carbocyanines.
- Since 1902 has published some 20 original papers.
- He has trained in chemical research a large number of collaborators whose names are associated with his own in the published papers." He won the Royal Society's Davy Medal in 1933.
- Mills married the chemist Mildred May Gostling in 1903.
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