Peter Sykes (chemist)
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Peter Sykes, FRSC (19 February 1923 – 24 October 2003[1]) was a British chemist and a former fellow[2] and vice-master of Christ's College, Cambridge.
He is the author of the undergraduate-level organic chemistry textbook A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry.[3] A textbook on mechanistic organic chemistry, it is used all over the world for different competitive examinations.[citation needed]
He was born in Chorlton, the younger son of John George Sykes and Alice (née Booth). He attended Rydal School.
Peter Sykes married Joyce Tyler in 1946. They had three children: Nicholas Peter (1949), Stephen (1951) and Helen (1956). He died at 33 Cavendish Avenue, Cambridge.
