:Harold Hartley (chemist)

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Sir Harold Brewer Hartley

| image = Sir Harold Hartley at the White House 11 September 1936 (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Hartley at the White House in 1936

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1878|09|03}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1972|09|09|1878|09|03}}

| death_place =

| fields = Physical chemistry, mineralogical chemistry

| workplaces = Balliol College, Oxford

| alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford

| doctoral_advisor = Sir John Conroy{{cite web |url=http://www.ndsu.edu/chemistry/files/genealogy-web.pdf |title=Academic Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |publisher=North Dakota State University, USA |access-date=16 March 2012 |archive-date=11 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211080217/https://www.ndsu.edu/chemistry/files/genealogy-web.pdf |url-status=dead }}

| doctoral_students = E. J. Bowen
Cyril Hinshelwood

| known_for = "physical and mineralogical chemistry, including electrical conductivity, ionisation, and electrolytic equilibria in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions"

| awards = Wilhelm Exner Medal (1937)
Hoover Medal (1968)

| signature = Sir Harold Hartley - signature.jpg

}}

Brigadier-General Sir Harold Brewer Hartley {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCVO|CH|CBE|MC|FRS}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Ogston | first1 = A. G. | author-link = Alexander George Ogston| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1973.0014 | title = Harold Brewer Hartley 1878–1972 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 19 | pages = 348–326 | year = 1973 | doi-access = }} (3 September 1878 – 9 September 1972) was a British physical chemist. He moved from academia to important positions in business and industry, including serving as Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Early life

He was the only child of the collector and bibliophile Harold T. Hartley (1851–1943).Harold Hartley, Eight-Eight Not Out (London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1939), p. 213. His mother died in 1884 when he was a young child and his father later remarried. The future academic was educated at Dulwich College,[http://www.dulwich.org.uk/OA_Document_1.aspx?id=1:29462&id=1:29454&id=1:29431/ Dulwich College Web Site – Old Alleynians: Eminent Old Alleynians: Science & Medicine] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519211947/http://www.dulwich.org.uk/OA_Document_1.aspx?id=1%3A29462&id=1%3A29454&id=1%3A29431%2F |date=19 May 2011 }} and Balliol College, Oxford. As a tutor at Balliol, he supervised the research of Edmund Bowen and Cyril Hinshelwood.John Andraos, [http://www.chem.yorku.ca/NAMED/NOBEL/CHEM/ Nobel Prizes in Chemistry], Department of Chemistry, York University, Canada.

First World War

Hartley served in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross.

Honours

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=30730 |date=7 June 1918 |page=6702 |supp=y}} He was Bedford Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

He was knighted in 1928, made KCVO in 1944, GCVO in 1957 and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 1967.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1926. His candidacy citation read:

{{blockquote|Distinguished for his investigations in physical and mineralogical chemistry, including electrical conductivity, ionisation, and electrolytic equilibria in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions. Has greatly contributed by his own work and that of his pupils to the building up of a notable school of physico-chemical research at Oxford. During the war and afterwards has done valuable work in connection with gas services. Acted as Chemical Adviser to the Third Army in France. Appointed Assistant Director of Gas Services, GHQ. Later appointed Controller of Chemical Warfare Department, with the rank of Brigadier-General.{{cite web| url= http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=3&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27hartley%27%29| title= Library and Archive Catalogue| publisher= Royal Society| access-date= 12 November 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}}}

He gave the address "Man's Use of Energy" as president of the British Association for 1949–1950.{{cite journal|author=Goldsmith, Maurice|title=Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science|journal=Science|date=8 December 1950|volume=112|issue=2919|pages=665–670|doi=10.1126/science.112.2919.665|pmid=14787501|bibcode=1950Sci...112..665G}} He received the Hoover Medal in 1968.

Family

Hartley was married in 1906 to Gertrude, eldest daughter of Arthur Lionel Smith, who was later Master of Balliol College. They had one son and one daughter.