Robert Page (chemist)
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Robert Owen Page (23 November 1897 – 14 July 1957) was a New Zealand
pacifist Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ''a ...
and industrial chemist.


Biography

Page was born in
Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ...
, New Zealand, on 23 November 1897. His father, Samuel Page, taught chemistry at Canterbury College, while his mother, Sarah Saunders, was a feminist who promoted social reforms. His maternal grandfather was Alfred Saunders a radical politician. Robert's friends knew him as Robin, and he attended Christchurch Boys’ High School until 1914. He won a university Junior Scholarship and went to Canterbury College, where he earned a BSc majoring in chemistry in 1917. He was awarded the Sir George Grey Scholarship, a Senior Scholarship and the Haydon Prize. He was a conscientious objector and was imprisoned in 1918.


References

1897 births 1957 deaths New Zealand chemists New Zealand pacifists Scientists from Christchurch Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand University of Canterbury alumni Saunders family People educated at Christchurch Boys' High School Fellows of the Royal Institute of Chemistry New Zealand conscientious objectors {{chemist-stub