14 Facts About Alfred Ubbelohde

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

Alfred Ubbelohde was born In Antwerp on 14 December 1907, the third son of Francois Christian J Ubbelohde, a merchant, and Angele.

Alfred Ubbelohde was interested in chemistry, pure mathematics and English literature.

Alfred Ubbelohde chose chemistry and won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford from where he graduated with First Class Honours in 1930.

In 1936, Paul Alfred Ubbelohde was awarded the Dewar Fellowship of the Royal Institution, then under the direction of Sir William Bragg.

Alfred Ubbelohde joined him in June 1940; he was Principal Experimental Officer in charge of a group working on the theory and practice of explosion and detonation.

In 1954 Alfred Ubbelohde moved from Belfast to take up the position of Professor of Thermodynamics at Imperial College London, accompanied by a number of junior colleagues and students from Queen's.

Alfred Ubbelohde's conversation was wide-ranging - physics, food, wine, pigs, farming, art, etc.

Alfred Ubbelohde was a man of wide interests, gifted with the ability to absorb and retain volumes of written information.

Alfred Ubbelohde was a salmon fisherman and an enthusiastic farmer who often held forth in College common rooms on the virtues of pigs.

When Paul Alfred Ubbelohde became well-established as Head of Department at Imperial College he advertised for a departmental secretary.

Alfred Ubbelohde was given considerable responsibility while working for Ubbelohde.

Alfred Ubbelohde worked with Dudley Maurice Newitt on the design and decoration of the Senior Common Room in the Roderick Hill building.

Alfred Ubbelohde is in an unmarked grave to the right of that of her former employer, Professor Ubbelohde, placed there at her request.