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Keith James Laidler, FRSC, chemist, professor (born 3 January 1916 in Liverpool, England; died 26 August 2003 in Ottawa, ON). After studying at Oxford and Princeton and holding appointments at the National Research Council and the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, he joined University of Ottawa in 1955 and remained there until his retirement in 1981. (See also Chemistry.)
Career
Keith James Laidler, co-authored The Theory of Rate Processes (1941) and published a large number of research papers, research monographs on chemical kinetics and chemistry textbooks. His research covered the fields of chemical reaction kinetics, fundamental theoretical aspects of kinetics and experimental study of many types of systems. (See also Chemistry Subdisciplines.)
Honours and Awards
Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1960, Keith James Laidler received the Chemical Institute of Canada Medal in 1971, the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 1977 and the Henry Marshall Tory Medal in 1987.
