Kennedy Joseph Previté Orton
Born21 January 1872
St. Leonard's on Sea
Died16 March 1930
Bangor
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical Organic Chemistry

Kennedy J. P. Orton (1872 - 1930) was a British chemist.[1] Initially he studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital, but there he became interested in chemistry and moved to St. John's College, Cambridge. He then obtained a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Heidelberg under Karl von Auwers, before working for a year with Sir William Ramsey at University College, London. He was then lecturer and demonstrator of Chemistry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before in 1903 being appointed Professor of Chemistry at University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he headed the department until his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921.[2][3][4]

Besides being a chemist, he was a keen climber and ornithologist, and a biannual ornithological lecture was endowed in his name.[5][6][7]

References

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  2. ^ "Professor Kennedy Orton". The Times. 24 March 1930. p. 19.
  3. ^ "Professor Orton". The Times. 19 March 1930. p. 19.
  4. ^ University of Cambridge; Venn, John; Venn, J. A. (John Archibald) (1922–54). Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900;. Robarts - University of Toronto. Cambridge, University Press.
  5. ^ "Kennedy J. P. Orton". Ibis. 73: 100. 1931. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1931.tb01508.x.
  6. ^ Lucas, A.; Jones, E. Gabriel; David, T. W. Edgeworth; Goulding, Ernest; Bolton, E. R. (1931). "Obituary notices". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 1042. doi:10.1039/jr9310001024. ISSN 0368-1769.
  7. ^ Angus, W. Rogie (1954). "Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. June 1954". Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. 78 (June): 291–298. doi:10.1039/ji9547800289. ISSN 0368-3958.
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