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Harold Baily Dixon, CBE, FCS, FRS (11 August 1852, London, England – 18 September 1930, Lytham, Lancashire) was a British chemist. He was educated at Westminster School and then Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1875. He became a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and by 1885 he was both the Millard Lecturer on Physics, at Trinity College, Oxford, and the Duke of Bedford's Lecturer on Chemistry, at Balliol College, Oxford. He Professor of Chemistry at Owen's College, Manchester, from 1886 to 1922. Dixon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1886, and gave its Bakerian Lecture in 1893. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Society, and its President from 1909 to 1911. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1913: "On the ground of his eminence in physical chemistry, especially in connexion with explosions in gases." Dixon was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918.

Sources

• Entry for Dixon in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 27 April 2008)
• DIXON, Harold Baily, Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970, from the Open University

External links

• Harold Bailey Dixon, photograph from the Edgar Fahs Smith Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Library (Dixon is at centre)
• The Chemical Society 1897 to 1944, includes a picture of Dixon, from the Royal Society of Chemistry

• 1852 births
• 1930 deaths
• British chemists