A Pioneering Course in Physical Organic Chemistry: J. W. Baker's 1942 Third-Year Lectures to Undergraduates (2015)
Saltzman, Martin D. (Author)
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Volume: 40
Issue: 2
Pages: 103-108
The person who had the greatest influence internationally on the development of physical organic chemistry was Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893-1970) (6). His appointment as Professor of Organic Chemistry at Leeds University in 1925 allowed him to initiate a revolution in the way organic chemistry was to be taught. Instead of rote memorization, understanding by examination of structure and mechanism became the emphases of Ingold’s revolution. When Ingold left Leeds in 1930 to become professor of organic chemistry at University College London, his former student and collaborator John William Baker (1898-1967) continued the course of lectures given to students in their third and final year of their B.Sc. degree course. In the three ten-week terms in the British academic calendar, third-year students would attend lectures in advanced topics chosen by the lecturers and which reflected generally their interests. Thus it was quite natural for Baker to continue the Ingold course and to continuously update it with new discoveries in the burgeoning field of physical organic chemistry (7).
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