Peter Sykes (chemist)

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.