Nevil Sidgwick
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Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (b Oxford in 1873; d in Oxford 15 March 1952): English theoretical chemist who made significant contributions to the theory of valency and chemical bonding.
Sidgwick spent his entire career in his birth town, becoming a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in 1901, having previously been at Christ Church. He was Professor of Chemistry from 1935 to 1945.
Sidgwick became absorbed by the study of atomic structure and its importance in chemical bonding. He explained the bonding in coordination compounds (complexes), with a convincing account of the significance of the dative bond. Together with his students he demonstrated the existence and wide-ranging importance of the hydrogen bond.
His works include The Organic Chemistry of Nitrogen (1910), The Electronic Theory of Valency (1927), Some Physical Properties of the Covalent Link in Chemistry (1933), and the definitive The Chemical Elements and their Compounds (1950).
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1922.
He died in Oxford on 15 March 1952.Template:Academic-bio-stub Template:Chemist-stub