Ronald Percy Bell FRS FRSC FRSE was a leading British physical chemist who worked in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford.
13 Facts About Ronnie Bell
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Ronald Percy Ronnie Bell was the eldest child of Edwin Alfred Ronnie Bell and his wife Beatrice Annie, teachers at an elementary school.
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Ronnie Bell was born on 24 November 1907 at Willowfield, Court House Road, Maidenhead; he had a brother, Kenneth, and an adopted sister, Margaret.
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From age 11 Bell attended Maidenhead County Boys' School, where F Sherwood Taylor was chemistry master, and a great influence on Bell; from there he went up to Balliol to read chemistry in 1924.
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Ronnie Bell fell in love with Denmark and it language and became proficient enough to translate books in later life, and to be of value to the Scandinavian Section of the Foreign Research and Press Service during the war.
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Ronnie Bell returned to Balliol in the autumn of 1932 and was awarded a tutorial fellowship there in the following year.
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Ronnie Bell stayed until 1966, having missed election to be Master of Balliol by a narrow margin.
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Ronnie Bell's career continued as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Stirling.
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In 1936, Ronnie Bell was awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and in 1941 he was Tilden Lecturer of the Chemical Society.
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In 1944, Ronnie Bell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1956 he was elected President of the Faraday Society.
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Ronnie Bell married Margery Mary West on 16 April 1931 in Maidenhead.
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Ronald Percy Ronnie Bell died on 9 January 1996 at the Kingston Nursing Home in Leeds.
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Ronnie Bell was the author of The Proton in Chemistry dealing with acid-base reactions.