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ROBERT LUDWIG MOND, the elder son of the late Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S., was born at Farnworth, near Widnes, Lancashire, on September 9, 1867, and was brother of Alfred Moritz Mond, the late Lord Melchett. He was educated at Cheltenham and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Later he worked at the Polytechnicum, Zurich, and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and had the privilege of being private assistant to Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin). His first wife, the mother of his two daughters, died tragically in Egypt in 1905 ; and he married in 1922 Marie Louise Le Manach, of Belle Isle en Terre, Brittany.
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GIBSON, C. Sir Robert Mond, F.R.S. Nature 142, 862–863 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142862a0
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