Nevil Vincent Sidgwick

Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (born May 8, 1873, Oxford—died March 15, 1952, Oxford) was an English chemist who contributed to the understanding of chemical bonding, especially in coordination compounds. Sidgwick’s work in organic nitrogen compounds, presented in his Organic Chemistry of Nitrogen (1910), was of enduring value. With Sir Ernest Rutherford he developed an interest in the forces that hold molecules together. After World War I he advanced the idea of the hydrogen bond to explain...