Ian Heilbron

Military service

Career

Appointments

• Lecturer, Royal Technical College, 1909–14
• Scientist, later consultant at British Dyestuffs Corp.
• Professor of organic chemistry, Royal Technical College, 1919–20
• Professor, University of Liverpool, 1920-33
• Professor, University of Manchester, 1933-8
• Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director of the Laboratories, Imperial College, 1938–49
• 1949: Retired from academic research
• Director, Brewing Industry Research Foundation, 1949–58
• Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Royal Military College of Science
• International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry
• Editor-in-chief of the “Dictionary of Organic Compounds” and
• Chairman of the editorial board of “Thorpe’s Dictionary of Applied Chemistry.”

  Notable trainees

While at [University of Liverpool]

• Frank Stuart Spring, grad student

  While at [University of Manchester]

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• Ewart Ray Herbert Jones, post-doc

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• Derek Harold Richard Barton, grad student
• Basil Weedon, grad student,
• Ralph Alexander Raphael, grad student
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• Franz Sondheimer, grad student
• Marc Julia, grad student

  While at [Imperial Chemical Industries]

• , research scientist

  Awards and honours

• 1911: Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry
• 1931: Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1939: Longstaff Medal of the Chemical Society of London
• 1943: Davy Medal from the Royal Society "In recognition of his many notable contributions to organic chemistry, especially to the chemistry of natural products of physiological importance"
• 1945: The American Chemical Society honored him with its highest prize, the Priestley Medal. This was the first time the award went to a non-American.
• 1946: In recognition of his work during war he was appointed a Knight Bachelor
• 1951: Royal Medal from the Royal Society