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Obituary: Professor Cliff Addison
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The Independent - London
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April 14, 1994
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Cyril Clifford Addison, chemist: born Plumpton, Cumberland 28
November 1913; Scientific Officer, British Launderers' Research
Association 1936-38; Lecturer in Chemistry Harris Institute,
Preston 1939-39; Member of the Chemical Inspection Department,
Ministry of Supply 1939-45; Lecturer, Reader and Professor of
Inorganic Chemistry, Nottingham University 1946-78; Leverhulme
Emeritus Professor 1978-94; FRS 1970; President of the Royal
Society of Chemistry 1976-77; married 1939 Marjorie Thompson (one
son, one daughter); died Hale, Cheshire 1 April 1994.
CLIFF ADDISON played an important role in the post-war
development of inorganic chemistry in Britain. He built up a
department at Nottingham ...