Thompson, Harold Warris, 1908-
Harold W. Thompson papers.
The collection is regrettably very unbalanced. There is no personal or biographical material and very little record of Thompson's research. On the other hand his contributions to international science and football are extensively documented. There is a full record of Thompson's Foreign Secretaryship of the Royal Society and his organization of the EUCHEM conferences and substantial documentation of his work for ICSU and IUPAC including the Commission on Molecular Spectroscopy and the Triple Commission on Spectroscopy.
Thompson was a distinguished Oxford scientist and teacher who made exceptional contributions to international science; he was also a lifelong enthusiast for association football. Educated in Sheffield and at Trinity College, Oxford, he then spent a year researching in Berlin before returning to Oxford to take up a Fellowship at St. John's College. Thompson quickly established himeself as an outstanding teacher and developed his research interests in the area of chemical spectroscopy. He contributed to international science as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, 1965-1971, and as president of International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), 1963-1966, and of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), 1973-1975. Throughout his life Thompson gave devoted service to football, from amateur player in his youth to Chairman of the Football Association, 1976-1981.
International Council of Scientific Unions.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Royal Society (Great Britain) -- Administration.
Euchem Conference on Stereochemistry.
Football.
Science -- International cooperation.
Chemists. lcsh
Triple Commission on Spectroscopy.
AIP-ICOS
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