Ronnie Bell
| Ronnie Bell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 November 1907 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England |
| Died | 9 January 1996 (aged 88) Kingston Nursing Home, Leeds, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physical chemistry |
| Institutions | Balliol College, Oxford, University of Stirling |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Doctoral students | John Albery |
| Known for | Physicochemical methods |
| Notable awards | Gibbs Prize, Meldola Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society |
Ronald Percy "Ronnie" Bell FRSFRSCFRSE (24 November 1907 – 9 January 1996) was a leading British physical chemist who worked in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, England.
Ronnie Bell was born at Willowfield, Court House Road, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, to Edwin Alfred Bell, headmaster of Gordon Road School in Maidenhead and Beatrice Annie Ash. He attended his father's school from 1913 to 1918 then Maidenhead County Boys' School until 1924. He then won a place at Balliol College, Oxford University, studying Chemistry.
Bell worked in the laboratory of the Danish physical chemist Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted from 1928 to 1932. Later, he was particularly active at Oxford with his research group between 1945 and 1967. He was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (where he had previously been a student) from 1933 to 1967, when he was appointed an honorary fellow on his move 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. He was a colleague of Edmund Bowen.
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