Charles Wayne Rees CBE FRS FRSC was a British organic chemist.
11 Facts About Charles Rees
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Charles Rees was then appointed Assistant Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London in 1955.
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Charles Rees collaborated for several years with Professor Donald Holroyde Hey on various aspects of heterocyclic chemistry.
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Charles Rees was appointed to his first Chair at the University of Leicester in 1965, and four years later moved to the University of Liverpool as Professor of Organic Chemistry, and in 1977 he succeeded Professor George Wallace Kenner there as Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry.
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Charles Rees published about 480 papers in the scientific literature.
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Charles Rees was the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from July 1992 for two years.
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Charles Rees has served on its Council and many Boards and Committees at various times; he was Chair of the Publication and Information Board for four years.
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Charles Rees was President of the Perkin Division of the RSC, and President of the Chemistry Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Charles Rees died on 21 September 2006 of undisclosed causes.
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Charles Rees was the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Lecturer in 1974, and the Pedler Lecturer in 1984, and received the RSC Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry in 1980 and the International award in Heterocyclic Chemistry in 1995.
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Charles Rees was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974.