10 Facts About Alfred Ubbelohde

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Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde FRS was a Belgian-born English physical chemist.

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Alfred Ubbelohde was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951.

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In 1954, Ubbelohde became a professor of thermodynamics at Imperial College London, a position he held until 1975.

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Alfred Ubbelohde's group was the first to synthesise highly oriented pyrolytic graphite.

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Alfred Ubbelohde was the chair of the Solvay Conferences on Chemistry, from 1959 to 1980.

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Alfred Ubbelohde is credited with coining the term proton conductor.

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Alfred Ubbelohde is known for studying life from a thermodynamic perspective, and for his eccentric study of the thermodynamics of pigs.

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8.

Alfred Ubbelohde authored numerous books on chemistry during his career.

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Alfred Ubbelohde was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951.

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Alfred Ubbelohde received the Liversidge Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1959.