Hinshelwood was president of the Chemical Society, the Royal Society, the Classical Association, and the Faraday Society, and received numerous awards and honorary degrees. Personal life Hinshelwood never married. He was fluent in seven classical and modern languages and his main hobbies were painting, collecting Chinese pottery, and foreign literature. As an artist, Hinshelwood painted scenes in Oxford, as well as portraits of Oxford University people including Harold Hartley, his doctoral supervisor, and Herbert Blakiston, the President of Trinity College. The portrait of Hartley is now owned by the Royal Society, and that of Blakiston is owned by Trinity College, as are a number of Hinshelwood's other paintings. He died, at home, on 9 October 1967. In 1968 his Nobel Prize medal was sold by his estate to a collector, who then sold it in 1976 for $15,000. In 2017 his Nobel Prize medal was sold at auction for $128,000. See also Balliol-Trinity Laboratories References External links including the Nobel Lecture on 11 December 1956 Chemical Kinetics in the Past Few Decades 1897 births 1967 deaths Scientists from London English physical chemists Knights Bachelor Nobel laureates in Chemistry British Nobel laureates Fellows of the Royal Society Presidents of the Royal Society Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford Members of the Order of Merit Recipients of the Copley Medal People educated at Westminster City School Royal Medal winners Faraday Lecturers Presidents of the British Science Association Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences English Nobel laureates Dr Lee's Professors of Chemistry Academics of Imperial College London Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Dalton Medal Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Members of the American Philosophical Society Presidents of the Classical Association