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{{Short description|English chemist (1926–2023)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{sources|date=October 2023}}
'''Harry Marsh''' (17 April 1926 – 25 September 2023) was an English chemist. His professional focus is [[carbon]] science.
Born on 17 April 1926 in West Durham, England, Marsh spent much of his career at the Northern Carbon Research Laboratories of the [[University of Newcastle upon Tyne]].<ref>{{cite book
|title=Introduction to carbon science
|author1=Ian A. S. Edwards
|author2=Harry Marsh
|editor=Ian A. S. Edwards
|editor2=Harry Marsh
|publisher=Butterworths
|year=1989
|isbn=978-0-408-03837-9
}}</ref> His research investigated the structure and [[Adsorption|adsorptive]] properties of carbons. At the 2006 meeting of the [[International Carbon Society]] he received their lifetime achievement award.<ref>Harry Marsh (2006) [http://www.hpc.susx.ac.uk/BCG/60_Years_Marsh/60_Years_Marsh.pps Lifetime Award Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928011632/http://www.hpc.susx.ac.uk/BCG/60_Years_Marsh/60_Years_Marsh.pps |date=2011-09-28 }} (large file)</ref>
As of 2016, Marsh lived in [[Whitley Bay]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Editorial (2016) |url=https://britishcarbon.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/whole-newsletter-2nt.pdf |website=The British Carbon Group |access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref> He died on 25 September 2023, at the age of 97.<ref>{{cite news |title=Professor Harry Marsh DSc, Phd, MRSc |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-october-3-2023-85f98ct2t |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=The Times |date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
==Publications==
*{{cite book |author1=Harry Marsh |author2=Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso |title=Activated carbon |edition=1st |publisher=Elsevier |year=2006 |oclc=71541218 |isbn=978-0-08-044463-5}}
*{{cite book |title=Activated carbon compendium : a collection of papers from the journal Carbon 1996-2000 |editor=Harry Marsh |publisher=Elsevier |year=2001 |edition=1st |oclc=50041805 |isbn=978-0-08-044030-9}}
*{{cite book |title=Sciences of carbon materials |author1=Harry Marsh |author2=Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso |publisher=Universidad de Alicante |year=2000 |oclc=46470741 |isbn=978-84-7908-544-5}}
*{{cite thesis |title=Studies of formation, structure and properties of carbonaceous substances |author=Harry Marsh |publisher=University of Newcastle upon Tyne |year=1970}}
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