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Cecil Edwin Henry Bawn, CBE, FRS (6 November 1908 – 19 September 2003) was a British chemist and academic, specialising in chemical kinetics. He was Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (1948–1969) and Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry (1969–1973) at the University of Liverpool. He had previously taught at the University of Manchester and the University of Bristol, before serving at the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War.[1][2] He was president of the Faraday Society from 1967 to 1968.
Honours and awards

On 20 March 1952, Bawn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,[3] the United Kingdom's national academy for the sciences.[4] In the 1956 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of his work as Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the University of Liverpool.[5]

Bawn was awarded the Tilden Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1948.[6] He was awarded the Liversidge Award by the Chemical Society in 1962.[7] He was awarded the Swinburne Gold Medal in 1966.[8]
Selected works

Bawn, C. E. H. (1948). The chemistry of high polymers. London: Butterworths Scientific Publications.

References

Bawn, Cecil Edwin Henry. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U6837. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 20 March 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
"Chemistry at the University of Liverpool : Dr. C. E. H. Bawn". Nature. 161 (4097): 715. 8 May 1948. Bibcode:1948Natur.161R.715.. doi:10.1038/161715b0.
Puddephatt, Richard J. (2021). "Cecil Edwin Henry Bawn. 6 November 1908 — 19 September 2003". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 70: 9–21. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0034. S2CID 231588206.
"List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007: A–J" (PDF). The Royal Society. July 2007. p. 27. Retrieved 20 March 2019. "Bawn, Cecil Edwin Henry (6 November 1908 – 19 September 2003): Fellow 20/03/1952"
"No. 40669". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1955. p. 10.
"Tilden Prizes Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
"Liversidge Award Previous Winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
"Awards archive - Swinburne". Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

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