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Dec 01, 1872 Clapham, England, United Kingdom Died on 10 Jun 1940 (aged 67)
English chemist
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About Jocelyn Field Thorpe
- Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe FRS (1 December 1872 – 10 June 1940) was an English chemist who discovered the Thorpe reaction and the Thorpe-Ingold effect.Born in London on 1 December 1872, one of nine children and the sixth son, of Mr.
- and Mrs.
- W.G.
- Thorpe of the Middle Temple.
- He attended Worthing College, King's College, London, and the Royal College of Science.
- He earned his Ph.D.
- in organic chemistry under Viktor Meyer at the Heidelberg University.
- Britain adopted a tear gas ethyl iodoacetate, in January 1915 after it was identified by Jocelyn Thorpe, professor of organic chemistry at Imperial College, University of London, which was codenamed ‘SK’ after the South Kensington location.
- During the war he also worked with Martha Annie Whiteley on the development of syntheses of drugs that had previously been imported from Germany.
