Frank Lee Pyman

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Frank Lee Pyman
Born	April 8, 1882(1882-04-08) Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Died	January 1, 1944 (aged 61) Nottingham, England
Residence	England
Nationality	English
Institutions	Victoria University of Manchester
Alma mater	University of Manchester,
Doctoral advisor	William Henry Perkin, Jr.,

Frank Lee Pyman was an English chemist. He was born in Malvern in 1882, the eldest son of Frank Pyman and Florence Lee, and a grandson of George Pyman. He studied at University of Manchester and graduated with his PhD in 1902. He worked with Bamberger at the Zürich Polytechnic. Being back in England he first joined the Thorpe research group, but Wellcome Chemical Works (now GlaxoSmithKline) in Dartford which he joined in 1905 was a better choice for him. In 1919 he went back to the University of Manchester, where he became professor for organic chemistry. After being responsible for the administration of the organic chemistry department he wanted to do more research and therefor joint Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd. in Nottingham in 1927 where he was appointed Head of the Research Department and he became a Director of the Company in 1929, which appointment he held at the time of his death in 1944 from a protracted illness at the age of 61.

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• Obituary notice
• Harold King (1944). "Frank Lee Pyman. 1882-1944". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 4 (13): 681-697.