Samuel Sugden

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Samuel Sugden, FRS, was an English chemist born in Leeds on 21 February 1892. He studied at Batley Grammar School and the Royal College of Science. After serving in World War I with the British Expeditionary Force, he worked as a research chemist at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. He then rose from lecturer to reader and finally to professor of physical chemistry at Birkbeck College. In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1937 he became Professor of Physical Chemistry at University College London. During World War II he joined the Ministry of Supply, but in 1944 he moved to a similar post with the United States Army Air Forces’ Eighth Air Force. He was also a published author. He died on 20 October 1950.