Papers of Professor Frederick Challenger (1887-1983), Professor of Chemistry at Leeds University, 1908-1978

The collection comprises two volumes containing off-prints of published articles by Professor Challenger. The volumes were compiled by Professor Challenger in 1954 and primarily concern the period 1908-1954. Occasional later items include an article written in 1978. The papers for the most part look at the preparation, derivatives, interaction and substitution of various organic chemical compounds. Exceptions include 'Frederic Stanley Kipping 1863-1949' (1951), 'The Chemistry Department of the University of Leeds' (1953), and an obituary of Andrew Jamieson Walker (1873-1935) (MS 740/1);

Challenger's research into the work of Professor F.S. Kipping is recorded in correspondence and photocopied papers, 1951-1975 (MS 740/2).

Frederick Challenger was born in 1887 and was educated at Derby Technical College and University College Nottingham. He was awarded a University of London B.Sc. degree in Chemistry in 1907. Challenger undertook research with Professor F.S. Kipping at University College Nottingham from 1908 to 1910. He then studied at Gottingen, Germany, under Professor O. Wallach, who won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1910. Challenger was awarded his doctorate from Gottingen in 1912 and in the same year became assistant lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. His career subsequently took him to the University of Manchester (1915), and then Leeds University where he became Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1930. On his retirement in 1953 he returned to Nottingham, where he retained active contacts in the academic world. He died in 1983.

No archival arrangement has been necessary.

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LANGUAGE: English, German

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The collection was given to the University of Nottingham's Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections in October 2002.

• University of Leeds; Brotherton library: Three laboratory notebooks kept by Frederick Challenger, 1931-1963. Reference: MS 730