1. Wallace Akers served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the committee that drew up the organisation of what became the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
10 Facts About Wallace Akers
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Wallace Alan Akers was born in Walthamstow, England, the second child of an accountant, Charles Akers, and his wife, Mary Ethelreda nee Brown.
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Wallace Akers was educated at Lake House School in Bexhill-on-Sea, Essex, and Aldenham School in Hertfordshire.
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Wallace Akers entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he specialised in physical chemistry, graduating with first class honours in 1909.
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Wallace Akers returned to England in 1928, to join Imperial Chemical Industries, into which Brunner Mond had earlier merged.
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In 1946, Wallace Akers returned to the Board of ICI where he served as director of research until April 1953, when he retired, having reached the compulsory retirement age of 65.
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Wallace Akers established university research fellowships, and donated money to university laboratories for research purposes.
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Wallace Akers was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1944, and was knighted in 1946, both for his services to the war effort.
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Wallace Akers was a member of the National Gallery's scientific advisory committee, later becoming a trustee, and was the treasurer of the Chemical Society from 1948 to 1954.
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Wallace Akers married Bernadette Marie La Marre in 1953, and died at their home in Alton, Hampshire, on 1 November 1954.