William Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones, Date of Birth, Date of Death

William Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones

British chemist

Date of Birth: 08-May-1903

Date of Death: 08-Nov-1982

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

William Francis Kenrick Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones (8 May 1903 – 8 November 1982) was a British chemist.
Raised to the peerage in 1964, he sat as a Labour peer.
Research Assistant and lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Bristol.
International Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) (1927–29); Lecturer in Chemisrrv, University of Reading (1929–38); Leverhulme Research Fellow, Princeton University (USA I (1934); Professor of Chemistry, University College, Dundee (then a part of the University of St Andrews, but which later became the University of Dundee) (1938–47); Professor of Physical Chemistry.
King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne (1947–56) and Professor of Chemistry and Head of the School of Chemistry, Newcastle University, 1956-68.
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Newcastle University, 1965-68. Wynne-Jones was created a Life Peer on 17 December 1964 with the title Baron Wynne-Jones, of Abergele in the County of Denbigh.Lord Wynne-Jones died in 1982.