1. Sir Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland FRS was a Scottish physicist.
21 Facts About Gordon Sutherland
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Gordon Sutherland was the youngest of seven children of Peter Sutherland and Eliza Hope, both teachers.
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Gordon Sutherland was taught by his parents until he was ten, when he attended Leven Academy for a year before moving to Morgan Academy in Dundee for 6 years.
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Gordon Sutherland graduated in 1928 and 1929 with first-class honours in each.
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Gordon Sutherland successfully applied for a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, and so sailed from Liverpool on the MV Britannic in September 1931, en route to Ann Arbor.
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Gordon Sutherland worked in Dennison's group for two academic years on a detailed infrared study of NO2 and N2O4 together with Raman studies on N2O4 and ozone.
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Gordon Sutherland soon built up a group of very able researchers, including Gordon K T Conn and Mansel Davies.
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Gordon Sutherland found that iso-octane component of the fuel had a highly characteristic set of bands which was evident even in complex mixtures.
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Gordon Sutherland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, the year in which he was asked if he would like to return to UMich as a full professor.
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Gordon Sutherland returned to Britain as Director of the National Physical Laboratory.
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Gordon Sutherland appointed John Pople to head up a new basics physics division, who was joined by David Whiffen, Keith McLauchlan, and Ray Freeman who together developed the use of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Gordon Sutherland was knighted in 1960 and returned to Cambridge in 1964 as Master of Emmanuel.
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Gordon Sutherland was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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Gordon Sutherland met his future wife, Gunborg Elisabeth Wahlstrom from Sweden, in Cambridge in 1933.
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Gordon Sutherland was staying with the family of Reginald Revans, whom Sutherland had met in the physics department at UMich.
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Gordon Sutherland left Sweden for England again on 12 February 1936, and they married that year at Caxton Hall in London.
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Gordon Sutherland gained her PhD from the Courtauld in 1965, and that same year married William Harris.
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Gordon Sutherland later divorced and moved to Pittsburgh where she became Mellon Professor of Art History.
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Gordon Sutherland has one son, Neil Harris, who is married to Kelly Shimoda.
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Gordon Sutherland married Richard Macnutt in 1964 and was administrator for his antiquarian music business in Tunbridge Wells until their divorce in 1974.
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Lady Gunborg Elisabeth Gordon Sutherland died on 6 April 2001 and is buried with her husband.