Keith Usherwood Ingold OC

Order of Canada

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 FRS FRSCan FRSE

Royal Society of Edinburgh

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 (Born 1929) is a British chemist

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He was born in to Sir Christopher Ingold

Christopher Kelk Ingold

Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold FRS was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile,...

 and Dr. Hilda Usherwood, and studied for a BSc

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 in Chemistry at the University of London

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, completing his degree in 1949. He continued his higher education with a PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in chemistry at Oxford University

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, which he completed in 1951. Soon after graduation he moved to Canada to begin work with the National Research Council followed by two years of post-doctoral research at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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. He returned to work for the NRC in 1955 as a research officer, followed by a promotion to head of the Free Radical Chemistry Section. He was awarded the 1968 Petroleum Chemistry Award, the 1988 Linus Pauling Award and has been awarded both the Davy Medal

Davy Medal

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 and Royal Medal

Royal Medal

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 of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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, the latter for "elucidating the mechanism of reactions involving free radicals". In 1995 he was made an officer of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

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 and has received honorary degrees from the universities of Guelph

University of Guelph

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, Mount Allison

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, St Andrews

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, Carleton

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, McMaster

McMaster University

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 and Dalhousie

Dalhousie University

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In recent years, his work has focused on radical-trapping antioxidant

Antioxidant

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s, vitamin E

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 in particular, and their effect on aging and on preventing such age-related diseases as cancer

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