From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Peter Sykes FRSC February 19 1923 October 24 2003 was a British chemist and a former Fellowand ViceMaster of Christs College Cambridge He is the author of highly popular undergraduatelevel organic chemistry textbook A Guidebook to Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry now in its sixth edition Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Sykes licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia