Allan Maccoll (1914-1999)

✍ Scribed by Jennings, Keith

• Book ID: 101223471
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 108 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1076-5174
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9888(199909)34:9<904::aid-jms843>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

Anyone who spent time in the company of Allan Maccoll will recall his quiet sense of humour, his fund of stories and his kindness and generosity. He was a distinguished physical chemist who travelled widely and had many friends in countries throughout the world. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1914 and moved with his family to Sydney, Australia, in 1922. In 1936, he was awarded a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Sydney. He also excelled at swimming and was active as a life-guard on Manly beach during this period as well as representing the University at water polo. In 1945, when a Senior Lecturer in Sydney, he was awarded an Imperial Chemical Industries Fellowship which enabled him to move to University College in London to work with Professor Sir Christopher Ingold at a time when the College had only recently returned from its wartime KEITH JENNINGS