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DR. C. E. H. BAWN, who has been appointed to the Grant–Brunner chair of physical and inorganic chemistry in the University of Liverpool, is a Bristolian who graduated and carried out his first researches at the University of Bristol. His first university appointment was as assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1931, where he owed much to the inspiration of Prof. M. Polanyi, under whom he worked on alkali metal flames and on the theory of chemical kinetics. He returned to Bristol in 1938 as a lecturer in physical chemistry and became reader in 1945. During the War he was engaged on extra-mural work for the Ministry of Supply, mainly on problems arising from the manufacture of explosives, and in 1943 was appointed principal scientific officer in charge of a physico-chemical section in the Armament Research Department, Ministry of Supply. Dr : Bawn‘s interest in research lies in chemical kinetics. During the War he carried out pioneer work on the stability and kinetics of decomposition of high explosives and pyrotechnics, evolving special technique for the purpose. His main work has, however, been based on the chemistry of free radicals, studying their methods of production and stability and the kinetics of their reactions. He has advanced our knowledge of biradicals, and of the decomposition of metal alkyls. Recently he has extended his work to the kinetics of polymerization reactions, particularly on the initiation of polymerization by free radicals, and has written a book on polymerization shortly to be published.
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Chemistry at the University of Liverpool : Dr. C. E. H. Bawn. Nature 161, 715 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161715b0
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