Ronnie Bell

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Ronnie Bell was a British chemist who worked in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University, England.

R. P. Bell worked in laboratory of the Danish physical chemist Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted from 1928 to 1932. later, he was particularly active in Oxford with his research group between 1945 and 1967. In 1967 he moved from Oxford to become Professor of Chemistry at the newly founded University of Stirling in Scotland.

Bell could be called by the hybrid term, a "physical organic chemist", since he investigated the use of physicochemical methods to discover the mechanisms of organic reactions.

[edit] See also

• John Albery (a DPhil student of Bell)
• E. J. Bowen (a colleague)

[edit] References

• Kinetics in Solution and some dates