12 Facts About Nevil Sidgwick

Nevil Vincent Sidgwick FRS was an English theoretical chemist who made significant contributions to the theory of valency and chemical bonding.

Nevil Sidgwick was initially educated at Summer Fields School but, after a year, he entered Rugby School in 1886.

Nevil Sidgwick gained a first in 1895, and went on to gain another first in Greats in 1897, a very rare feat.

Nevil Sidgwick returned to Germany in the autumn of 1899, this time in Hans von Pechmann's lab at the University of Tubingen.

Nevil Sidgwick was elected to a Fellowship at Lincoln College, where he went into residence in October 1901 and remained for the rest of his life.

In 1914 Nevil Sidgwick was one of the members of the party chosen to represent the British Association for the meeting held in Australia.

Nevil Sidgwick became a devotee of the physicist, and would hear no criticism of him in later years.

Nevil Sidgwick became absorbed by the study of atomic structure and its importance in chemical bonding.

Nevil Sidgwick explained the bonding in coordination compounds, with a convincing account of the significance of the dative bond.

Nevil Sidgwick was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1922.

Nevil Sidgwick travelled to Toronto for a British Association meeting in 1924, and then explored much of western Canada.

Nevil Sidgwick had several more trips to the United States in the 1930s and later, culminating in a voyage on the Britannic from Liverpool to New York on 27 July 1951.