About Hubert Britton
Lived 1892 – 1960 (aged 67–68). Hubert Britton was a chemist.
Hubert Thomas Stanley Britton (22 April 1892 – 30 December 1960) was a British chemist and professor of chemistry and director of the Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter. He is known for his 1931 invention of the Britton–Robinson buffer. His father was a shoemaker. Britton was educated at St George Grammar School and the Merchant Venturers College, Bristol, before receiving a scholarship for the University of Bristol in 1911. He graduated from Bristol in 1914. remaining in this post until his own retirement in 1957.
Personal life and death In 1957, he retired and moved to Three Bridges, Sussex, where his wife died in June 1959, and where he died on 30 December 1960. They had a son and a daughter.
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British chemist (1892–1960)
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