Roger Parsons FRSC FRS (1926 – 7 January 2017) was a British chemist (electrochemist).
[1] Parsons studied chemistry at Imperial College London, obtaining a first class bachelor's degree in 1947.
In 1977 Parsons was appointed Directeur du Laboratoired'Electrochimie Interfaciale (director of the laboratory of interfacial electrochemistry) at the CNRS in France, moving to Southampton in 1985 before retiring in 1992.
[2] Parsons served as editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and as president of the Faraday Division of the Royal Chemical Society.
[2] His work dealt with kinetics (especially hydrogen evolution in electrolysis), electrocapillarity and adsorption processes, optical methods in interfacial electrochemistry, single crystal electrode processes and the electrochemical double layer.