Robert H. Whytlaw-Gray, OBE, FRS[1] (14 June 1877 – 29 January 1958) was an English chemist, born in London.
The prize is awarded to “the best graduate, under the age of 24, progressing to the Research School”[5] which presumably means Whytlaw-Gray gained a first degree, although there is no formal record of this.
In 1903 he joined Anschütz’s lab at the University of Bonn, where he worked on the atomic weight of nitrogen and where he was awarded a PhD in 1906.
[8] The University conferred on him the title of Emeritus Professor on his retirement and, in 1950, the degree of DSc honoris causa.
Whytlaw-Gray died on 21 January 1958, aged 80[10] at The Cottage Hospital, Welwyn Garden City.