Frank Lee Pyman

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name = Frank Lee Pyman


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birth_date = birth date|1882|4|8
birth_place = Malvern, Worcestershire, England
residence = England
nationality = English
death_date = death date and age|1944|1|1|1882|4|8
death_place = Nottingham, England
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work_institution = Victoria University of Manchester
alma_mater = University of Manchester,
doctoral_advisor = William Henry Perkin, Jr.,
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Frank Lee Pyman was an English chemist. He was born in Malvern in 1882, the eldest son of Frank Pyman and Florence Lee, and a grandson of George Pyman. He studied at University of Manchester and graduated with his PhD in 1902. He worked with Bamberger at the Zürich Polytechnic. Being back in England he first joined the Thorpe research group, but Wellcome Chemical Works (now GlaxoSmithKline) in Dartford which he joined in 1905 was a better choice for him. In 1919 he went back to the University of Manchester, where he became professor for organic chemistry. After being responsible for the administration of the organic chemistry department he wanted to do more research and therefor joint Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd. in Nottingham in 1927 where he was appointed Head of the Research Department and he became a Director of the Company in 1929, which appointment he held at the time of his death in 1944 from a protracted illness at the age of 61.

References

* [http://www.biochemj.org/bj/038/0283/0380283.pdf Obituary notice]
*cite journal
title = Frank Lee Pyman. 1882-1944
author = Harold King
journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
year = 1944
volume = 4
issue = 13
pages = 681–697
url= http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1479-571X%28194411%294%3A13%3C681%3AFLP1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1944.0015