Sir Martin Onslow Forster 1872

occupation:
Chemist
Nationality:
British
born in:
Lambeth, Lambeth, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

1902 - Assistant Professor of chemistry, at Royal College of Science, with research group including H. E. Fierz. Main publications dealt with the chemistry of camphor and triazo-compounds. 1922 - India, as director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 1933 - knighted on his retirement. Settled in Mysore, where he died on 24 May 1945.