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Frederick George Mann

1897 – 1982

Organic chemist

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Lived 1897 – 1982 (aged 84). Frederick George Mann was a chemist.

Frederick George Mann (29 June 1897 – 29 March 1982) was a British organic chemist.

Biography He was the second of four children of William Clarence Herbert Mann, senior civil servant at the Admiralty and Elizabeth Ann (née Casswell) and was born in West Norwood. He attended local primary schools and then the Battersea Polytechnic Secondary School for Boys, where his work was repeatedly reported as 'excellent in every way'.

Honours and awards He won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Prize in 1943, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1947.

Personal life When FG was appointed to a lectureship at Trinity in 1930 it improved his income, enabling him to marry Margaret Reid Shackleton that year. They had two children: Shirley Margaret Shackleton Mann (b. 1932) and Carola Mary Shackleton Mann (b. 1934).

Margaret died in Cambridge in 1950. FG married Barbara Thornber the following year; she was an organic chemist, specialising in microanalysis, and later personal secretary to Lord Todd. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Hilary Frances Mann, in 1954.

Frederick George Mann suffered from Alzheimer's disease for the last six years of his life; he died in 1982.

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Downing College, Cambridge University
Employers
University of Cambridge
Awards
Tilden Prize
Also known as
F. G. Mann

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organic chemist

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Frederick George Mann was born on 29 June 1897 in London.

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Frederick George Mann died on 29 March 1982 in Cambridge.

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Frederick George Mann was a chemist.

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· Wikidata: Q21166385

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