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Life as a chemist in the second world war


By Margaret Appleton2021-05-21T08:33:00+01:00
Life as a chemist in the second world war
Many chemists did vital work in the second world war, often in challenging circumstances. My father, Robert Hopkins, who died recently aged 100, was one of them. As a flavour of the times, here is a small selection from his reminiscences.
Source: © M-H Jeeves
I was nineteen and halfway through a course in chemistry at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London when war broke out. The course was speeded up by increasing the number of lectures at the expense of practical work, and the final exams took place in summer 1940. Practical exams were in a one storey wooden building in South Kensington, and we were periodically chivvied into a more solid place when the exam observer thought planes were rather too close. Gas pressure for the Bunsen burner was low and work was difficult even when you knew what to do.

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