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British Chemist gets Nobel Prize. November 1 1956. Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, President of the Royal Society and Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, who has been awarded, jointly with a Russian scientist, the 1956 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Sir Cyril, eminent authority on chemical kinetics, receives the award for research into the mechanism of chemical reactions. He has made a special study of bacterial cell-growth in the light of physical chemistry.