Neil Kensington Adam

Neil Kensington Adam (5 November 1891 – 19 July 1973) was a British chemist. and his classicist wife Adela Marion (née Kensington) (1866–1944). His maternal uncle was Sir Alfred Kensington, a judge in the Chief Court of the Punjab.

Adam was educated at Winchester College, and then studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later became a fellow (1915–1923). He graduated BA in 1913, received his MA in 1919, and Sc.D in 1928. He was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southampton from 1937 until 1957. Adam died, aged 81, in Southampton.

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