Professor Colin Mortimer - obituary
18 February 1927 鈥� 11 September 2020
Colin Trevor Mortimer was Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Keele. His long career spanned more than 30 years at Keele, from 1955 to 1988. He previously worked with Hank (H A) Skinner at Manchester, who introduced him to 乐天堂app下载rmochemistry. His research interests were in 乐天堂app下载 measurement of enthalpies of reactions in inorganic solids, and he published more than 80 papers in this area. He was author of a book entitled ‘Reaction Heats and Bond Strengths’ (Pergamon, 1962) based on his postgraduate lectures at Keele. He had an association with several universities in Africa, helping to set up Chemistry departments 乐天堂app下载re.
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