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Samuel Sugden,[1] FRS[2][3] was an eminent[4] chemist[5] in the first half of the 20th century.[6]
He was born in Leeds[7] on 21 February 1892 and educated at Batley Grammar School[2] and the Royal College of Science.[8]
After war time service with the BEF he was a Research Chemist the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich[9] following which he became a Lecturer, Reader[10] then Professor of Physical chemistry at Birkbeck College.[11] In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[2] and in 1937 became Professor of Physical Chemistry at University College, London.[12] When World War II returned he joined the newly formed Ministry of Supply but resigned in 1944 to take up a similar post with the United States Air Force Eighth Air Force. A noted author,[13] he died on 20 October 1950.[14]
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