Harold Baily Dixon

[c. 1900?]

Photograph Album, Mellor Papers, Box 11

Unpublished

Professor Harold Baily Dixon was Chair of Chemistry at Owens College from 1886 until his retirement in 1922. His main area of research involved work ‘upon gaseous explosions [which] opened a new era in combustion research’ (Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1932). Dixon was an excellent teacher and a great advocate of experimental research. It was he who suggested Mellor research the combination of hydrogen and chlorine – the theme of his doctoral thesis.