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Index to Plaques installed by The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Names in Chronological order of intallation

These are mostly hexagonal blue plaques, but some are rectangular silvery ones.
This section is still under construction, please send OS Grid Ref of plaques and/or photographs.

RSC plaques in the Thames Valley

  1. Hodgkin
    Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Plaque on the Inorganic Chemistry Library building in Oxford.
    Nobel prize winner for work on the structure of insulin, vitamins and proteins.
    There is a Bronze head of Dorothy in the nearby University Museum.
    A second plaque was installed on 6 May 2014 commemmorating 50 years since her award of the Nobel prize,
  2. Moseley
    Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley on the Townsend building on the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
    He enlisted in WW I and was killed at Gallipoli.

  3. Harwell
    Harwell laboratory on gatepost of former Atomic Energy Reseach Establishment for their work on the development of nuclear power during and after WW II

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