He went on to earn a PhD and win the Ramsay Memorial Prize for best student of the year.
During his life, Bateman wrote a total of 70 papers on natural rubber, mostly dealing with oxidation and sulphuration reactions.
Batesman left these postings in 1974 and became the secretary-general of the International Rubber Study Group in 1975.
In Mar 1968 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] He retired in 1983, and suffered a stroke in 2002.
He died on 26 October 2005, and was eulogised in an obituary placed in the New Straits Times by the director-general and staff of the Malaysian Rubber Board.