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The Sir Jesse Boot Chair of Organic Chemistry
2020 was the 100th anniversary of the Sir Jesse Boot Chair of Organic Chemistry.
The century covered by the Sir Jesse Boot Chair in Organic Chemistry has seen an enormous expansion in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, going from 8 academic staff and around 40 full and part-time students in 1920, to 50 academic staff and more than 800 fulltime undergraduate and postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers in 2020.
Read more about the Chair and its incumbents
The history of the School of Chemistry