Norman Sheppard FRS was a chemist and expert on the application of vibrational spectroscopy to molecular structure, in solids, on surfaces, in solution and in the gas phase.
11 Facts About Norman Sheppard
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Norman Sheppard was born at 15 St Hilda Street Hull on 16 May 1921, son of Walter and Anne Clarges.
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Norman Sheppard studied for his PhD under Gordon Sutherland and was awarded the higher degree in 1947.
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Norman Sheppard had a successful year, resulting in his contributing to a paper on Raman spectra and rotational isomerism.
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Norman Sheppard returned to the UK on the Queen Mary in September 1948 and re-joined Sutherland's group in the Department of Colloid Science.
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Norman Sheppard later became a member of the Spectroscopic Panel of the Institute of Petroleum, and received funding over three years, sufficient to set up a research group.
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Norman Sheppard was next appointed assistant director of research in spectroscopy in the university chemical laboratory, and a teaching fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1955.
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Norman Sheppard became aware of the growing importance of NMR and persuaded head of department Professor Todd to seek the funding for one of the expensive machines.
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Norman Sheppard set up a research group and gained a professorship.
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Norman Sheppard was president of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967.
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Norman Sheppard died at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on 10 April 2015, of aspiration pneumonia following a stroke.