William Arthur Bone

William Arthur Bone, FRS[1] (19 March 1871 – 11 June 1938) was a British fuel technologist and chemist.

After a period as Lecturer in Chemistry and Metallurgy at Manchester where he studied hydrocarbon combustion, Bone was appointed Livesey Professor of Coal Gas and Fuel Industries at the University of Leeds in 1906.

In 1912 he made his last move, this time to the Department of Chemical Technology at Imperial College, London, again concentrating on the investigation of combustion.

[1][4] He delivered their Bakerian Lecture in 1932 (on hydrocarbon combustion) and was awarded their Davy Medal in 1936 "For his pioneer work on contact catalysis and his researches on the mechanism of combustion of hydrocarbons and on the nature of flames and on gaseous explosions".

The medal was awarded annually to the most promising chemical engineer under the age of 30.