Cyril N. Hinshelwood

thumb|Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 1956 Sir Cyril N. Hinshelwood Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was an English physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Quotes The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood. Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. "Presidential Address to Classical Association," 1959; Partly quotes in: Chemists through the years, part 1, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994. External links Category:1967 deaths Category:Chemists from England Category:1897 births Category:Nobel laureates from England Category:Nobel laureates in Chemistry Category:People from London Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of Oxford faculty Category:Fellows of the Royal Society