Professor Arthur Donald Walsh, Chair of Chemistry, University of Dundee 1920-1976

University of Dundee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vg1wsv (corporateBody)

The University of Dundee was established by Royal Charter on 1 August 1967. The creation of the University was due to increasing political pressures to admit more students to higher education. Under these pressures it became untenable for Queens College, Dundee to continue as it was, as a college of the University of St Andrews. The Robbins Committee Report of 1963 stated that full-time education should be open to all who were qualified. Local town planning regulations prevented sig...

Arthur Donald Walsh

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vc3fct (person)

A. D. Walsh, or Donald Walsh as he was known, was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, in 1916. Educated at Cambridge he took a PhD in physical chemistry in 1941 and became an ICI fellow. In 1955, after six years as a lecturer and reader in physical chemistry at Leeds University, Walsh took over the chair of chemistry at Queen’s College, Dundee. He was well respected for his work on molecular spectroscopy and combustion and his contribution to chemistry was recognised with his election to the R...

Walsh Arthur Donald 1916-1977

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f3427c (person)