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British Rubber Producers Research Association
The Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, originally known as the British Rubber Producers' Research Association, carries out research into rubber and is funded by the Malaysian government. Early years: as the British Rubber Producers Research Association: 1938 to 1957 The British Rubber Producers Research Association was formed as a scientific research organization in 1938 'to understand rubber and in pursuit of this aim to mount a programme of fundamental research', since at that time the technology was almost entirely empirical.Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (1999) vol 45 pp 185-194 It carried out fundamental work on rubber, which included the more general polymer science and the physics and mathematics of rheology and in addition contributed to early work on electronic computers. Prominent in the push for greater rubber research and the establishment of the association was Sir Eric Miller (rubber industrialist), Sir Eric Miller, who became chairman of the BRP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Edgar Andrews
Edgar Harold Andrews (born 16 December 1932) is an English physicist and engineer known for his creationist views. He is emeritus professor of materials at Queen Mary, University of London. Education After completing a BSc degree in theoretical physics at the University of London in 1953, Andrews obtained a PhD in applied physics in 1960 (more specific: solid-state physics) and a DSc (higher doctorate) in physics in 1968. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), Chartered Engineer (CEng, UK) and Chartered Physicist (CPhys). Andrews is also an international expert on the science of polymers (large molecules). Career From 1953 to 1955, Andrews was a technical officer at Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Welwyn Garden City. From 1955 to 1963 he was a senior physicist at the Natural Rubber Producers' Research Association, also in Welwyn. From 1963 to 1968 he was a reader in materials science. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Mullins
Leonard Mullins (1918 – 19 September 1997) was a scientist and long-time Research Director at the former Malaysian Rubber Producers' Research Association. He is known for his work on the stress-softening behavior of rubber, a phenomenon now known widely as the Mullins effect. Personal Mullins was born on 21 May 1918 and died on 19 September 1997 at the age of 79. Leonard was the eldest of 7 children, with his brothers Eric, Kenneth, John, known as Alan, and sisters Sylvia, Muriel and Eugenie. He married Freda Churchouse on 6 March 1943 and had 2 daughters Margaret and Janet. Education Mullins graduated from University College London in 1939 BSC (Hons), PhD, DSc Career He had originally hoped to enter academia, but World War II interrupted his plans and he ended up working in weapons research for the British government. In 1949, he oversaw the dismantling of the Bayer A.G. rubber labs and pilot plant at Leverkusen, Germany. In 1950, he joined the physics group of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan H
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Pamela J
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Charles Coulson
Charles Alfred Coulson (13 December 1910 – 7 January 1974) was a British applied mathematician and theoretical chemist. Coulson's major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of molecular structure, dynamics and reactivity. He was also a Methodist lay preacher, served on the World Council of Churches from 1962 to 1968, and was chairman of Oxfam from 1965 to 1971. Early life The parents of Charles Coulson and his younger twin brother John Metcalfe Coulson were educators who hailed from the Midlands. The twins were born when their father, Alfred, was principal of Dudley Technical College and superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School, and their mother Annie Sincere Hancock was Headmistress of Tipton Elementary School, close by. Coulson's parents maintained a religious Methodist home. When the Coulson brothers were 10, their father was appointed Superintendent of Technical Colleges for the South-West of Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moffitt
William E. Moffitt (9 November 1925 – 19 December 1958) was a British quantum chemist. He died after a heart attack following a squash match.Prof William Moffit, Obituaries, by Charles Coulson, The Times, 30 December 1958 page 8 He had been thought to be one of Britain's most gifted academics. Early life Moffitt was born in Berlin, Germany to British parents; his father was working in Berlin on behalf of the British government. He was educated by private tuition up to the age of 11. He attended Harrow School from 1936–43. His chemistry master later said of him that "he was undoubtably the most able of a decade of gifted boys ... ndhas a profound effect on all who met him. He did more than anyone to create in the school the intellectual climate so necessary for the stimulation of young minds". Academic career He then studied chemistry at New College, Oxford, under an open scholarship, and graduated with first class honours. His D.Phil. supervisor, Charles Coulson, later wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Brian Lindley
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Graham Lake (cricketer)
Graham Johnson Lake (13 April 1935 – 15 February 2023) was an English scientist known for his contributions to understanding rubber's fatigue limit, and a former professional English cricketer. Scientific career Lake began his scientific career as a research assistant in 1958 at the British Rubber Producer's Research Association. During his employment at BRPRA, he attended evening classes at the University of London, achieving a B.Sc. in Physics in 1962, and a Ph.D. in 1967. He undertook fundamental studies of the fatigue properties of elastomers, and established the principle that fatigue cracks develop from pre-existing features of rubber's microstructure, in accordance with the expectations of Fracture Mechanics. Together with doctoral student Oon Hock Yeoh he also studied the mechanics of cutting of rubber with a blade, thereby establishing the principle that rubber's intrinsic strength and fatigue limit are the same and that they can be measured via cutting experiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Haworth
Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins. Haworth worked out the correct structure of a number of sugars, and is known among organic chemists for his development of the Haworth projection that translates three-dimensional sugar structures into convenient two-dimensional graphical form. Academic career Having worked for some time from the age of fourteen in the local Ryland's linoleum factory managed by his father, he studied for and successfully passed the entrance examination to the University of Manchester in 1903 to study chemistry. He made this pursuit in spite of active discouragement by his parents. He gained his first-class honou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl A
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Alan Neville Gent
Alan Neville Gent (11 November 1927 – 20 September 2012) was a British-American physicist. A professor at the University of Akron, he was recognized during his lifetime as a world-leading authority on the topics of adhesion physics, crystalline and glassy polymers, and the fracturing of rubber. Biography Gent was born in Leicester, England. He obtained degrees in Physics and Mathematics at the University of London, and a doctorate in 1955 in the mechanics of deformation and fracture of rubber and plastics. At age 17, Gent worked as a research assistant at the John Bull Rubber Co. He served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949 before becoming a research physicist and later a principal physicist at the British Rubber Producer's Research Association. In 1961, Gent joined the faculty of the University of Akron, where he spent almost half a century. He was an assistant director of the Institute of Polymer Science and dean of graduate studies and research in addition to being a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
