J.W. Mellor to Sir William Jackson Pope

6 December, 1926

Mellor Papers, Box 10, folder 7

Unpublished

Sir William Jackson Pope (1870-1939) was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and later at the University of Cambridge. Pope worked on the production of optically active compounds containing no asymmetric carbon atoms. He managed to make optically active compounds centred on asymmetric atoms of nitrogen, sulphur, selenium and tin. During WWI Pope developed methods for manufacturing mustard gas in quantity. He accepted a knighthood for his work in 1919. Pope was one of the people who nominated Mellor to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. In this letter to Pope, Mellor gives some names of others who might assist Pope with the nomination.