Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967

“for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy”

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was a British chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy. He was known for developing flash photolysis, a technique for studying rapid reactions.

Field

Chemistry · Physical Chemistry

Lifespan

1897–1978