Noël Deerr

Noël Deerr (1874 – 1953) was an English historian and technologist of the sugar industry. His major work was The History of Sugar, published in two volumes by Chapman and Hall in London, 1949–1950.[1][2]

A Noël Deerr Gold Medal is awarded by The Sugar Technologists' Association of India in Deerr's memory.[3]

Selected publications

• Sugar House Notes and Tables: a Reference Book for Planters, Factory Managers, Chemists, Engineers, and Others Employed in The Manufacture of Cane Sugar. London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1900.
• Sugar and the Sugar Cane: an elementary treatise on the agriculture of the sugar cane and on the manufacture of cane sugar. Altrincham: Norman Rodger, 1905.
• Cane Sugar: a Textbook on the Agriculture of the Sugar Cane, The Manufacture of Cane Sugar, And The Analysis of Sugar-house Products. 2nd edition. London: Norman Rodger, 1921.
• "The Reduction of Sugar Factory Results to a Common Basis of Comparison", I.S.J., 35 (1933), p. 214.
• Methods of Chemical Control for Cane Sugar Factories and Gur Refineries. Cawnpore: Sugar Technologists' Association of India, 1936.
• The History of Sugar. London: Chapman and Hall, 1949–1950.
• Payne, John Howard (compiler) Noël Deerr: Classic Papers of a Sugar Cane Technologist. Amsterdam & Oxford: Elsevier, 1983.

References

1. Moore, J. Preston (1 October 1950). "The History of Sugar. By Noel Deerr. In two volumes. (London: Chapman and Hall. 1949, 1950. Pp. xiv, 258; xiv, 259–636. 50 s., 55 s.)". The American Historical Review. 56 (1): 80–81. doi:10.1086/ahr/56.1.80.
2. Higman, B.W. (20 March 1989). "Review of The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914". Social and Economic Studies. 38 (4): 283–286. JSTOR 27864916.
3. STAI Awards. Sugar Technologists' Association of India. Retrieved 3 June 2019.

Further reading

• Bechard, R. M. "Natal Sugar Mill Results Examined in the Light of the Noel Deerr Formulae".

External links

• "Noel Deerr's research works". Researchgate.net. Retrieved 20 March 2019.