Peter Sykes (chemist)

Peter Sykes, FRSC was a British chemist and a former fellow 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. A textbook on mechanistic organic chemistry, it is used all over the world for different competitive examinations.
He was born in Chorlton, the younger son of John George Sykes and Alice. He attended Rydal School.
Peter Sykes married Joyce Tyler in 1946. They had three children: Nicholas Peter, Stephen and Helen. He died at 33 Cavendish Avenue, Cambridge.