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The Faraday Society was a British society for the study of physical chemistry, founded in 1903 and named in honour of Michael Faraday. In 1980, it merged with several similar organisations, including the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and the Society for Analytical Chemistry to form the Royal Society of Chemistry which is both a learned society and a professional body. At that time, the Faraday Division became one of six units within the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Faraday Society published Faraday Transactions from 1905 to 1971, when the Royal Society of Chemistry took over the publication. Of particular note were the conferences called Faraday Discussions, which were published under the same name. The publication includes the discussion of the paper as well as the paper itself. At the meeting, more time is given to the discussion than to the author presenting the paper as the audience are given the papers prior to the meeting. These conferences continue to be run by the Royal Society of Chemistry. In addition to its presidents, key figures at the Faraday Society included George Stanley Withers Marlow, Secretary and Editor of the society from 1926 to 1948, and his successor Frederick Clifford Tompkins. Tompkins served as Editor until 1977, and as the President of the Faraday Division of the amalgamated Royal Society of Chemistry from 1978 to 1979. Prior to the amalgamation, Tompkins received valuable assistance from D. A. Young, who became Editor as of 1977.
== Presidents == Sir Joseph Swan: 1903–1904 Lord Kelvin: 1905–1907 Sir William Henry Perkin: 1907 Sir Oliver Lodge: 1908–1909 Sir James Swinburne: 1909–1911 Sir Richard T. Glazebrook: 1911–1913 Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield: 1913–1920 Professor Alfred W Porter: 1920–1922 Sir Robert Robertson: 1922–1924 Sir Frederick George Donnan: 1924–1926 Professor Cecil Henry Desch: 1926–1928 Professor Thomas Martin Lowry: 1928–1930 Sir Robert Mond: 1930–1932 Professor Nevil Vincent Sidgwick: 1932–1934 William Rintoul: 1934–1936 Professor Morris William Travers: 1936–1938 Sir Eric Keightley Rideal: 1938–1945 Professor William Edward Garner: 1945–1947 Professor Arthur John Allmand: 1947–1948 Sir John Lennard-Jones: 1948–1950 Sir Charles Goodeve: 1950–1952 Sir Hugh Taylor: 1952–1953 Professor Ronald George Wreyford Norrish: 1953–1955 Ronald Percy Bell: 1956–1957 Sir Harry Work Melville: 1958 Dr Edgar William Steacie: 1959 Sir Harry Work Melville: 1960 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood: 1961–1962 Professor Alfred Rene Ubbelhode: 1963–1964 Sir Frederick Sydney Dainton: 1965–1966 Professor Cecil Bawn: 1967–1968 Professor Geoffrey Gee: 1969–1970 Professor John Wilfrid Linnett: 1971–1972
== See also == Marlow Award
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