11: Recent Advances in the Chemistry of the Aromatic Compounds (1956)

Authors

  • Sir Geoffrey Malcolm Badger Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Adelaide

Abstract

Liversidge Research Lecture delivered to the Royal Society of New South Wales, July 12, 1956. Reproduced by permission of the Royal Society of New South Wales from J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 1956, 90, 87-99.

"The study of the aromatic compounds has never been seriously neglected, for it has not only posed many problems of academic and theoretical interest but, in addition, many such compounds are of great commercial importance."

"It is not inappropriate that the Liversidge Research Lecture should be concerned with this topic in 1956, for this is the 100th anniversary of the discovery the first synthetic dyestuff, mauveine, by the youthful W.H. Perkin."

Author Biography

  • Sir Geoffrey Malcolm Badger, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Adelaide

     

    In 1956, Geoffrey Malcolm Badger was Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Adelaide. In 1964, he was appointed to the executive of the CSIRO, but returned to the University of Adelaide, where he was Vice-Chancellor from 1967 until 1977. Sir Geoffrey was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1975 and was knighted in 1979.

     

    For additional biographical information, photographic permissions, references and a list of honours, awards and publications, please see pages 2–5 of the transcript.

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Sir Geoffrey Malcolm Badger portrait

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