The progress of scientific chemistry in our own times : with biographical notices / by William A. Tilden.

  • William A. Tilden
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1913
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    Edward Williams Morley, Sc.D. (Yale), Professor-Emeri¬ tus in the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. William Odling, M.A., F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford. Retired 1912. Theophile Jules Pelouze, born 26th February 1807 at Valognes (Dep. La Manche). Pelouze began life in connection with pharmacy, but having gained admission to Gay-Lussac’s laboratory, he devoted himself exclusively to chemistry. In 1830 he became for a time Associate Professor to the Munici¬ pality of Lille. Later he became Professor at the Ecole Poly¬ technique, and in 1850 succeeded Thenard at the College de France. In 1848 he also became President of the Commission des Monnaies, and carried out the recoining of the silver and copper. He died 31st May 1867. [Obituary, Journ. Chem. Hoc., 21, xxv. (1868).] Alexis Therese Petit, born 2nd October 1791 at Vesoul, died 21st June 1820 in Paris. Student, and later Professor of Physics at the Ecole Poly technique, Paris. [PoggendorfFs Handworterb uchi] William Prout, born 1785. M.D. of Edinburgh, 1811. Physician. He died in 1850. [Die iionary of National Biography.] Alexander Scott, D.Sc. Edin., F.R.S. From 1896 to 1912 Superintendent of the Davy-Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution. Jean Servais Stas was born at Louvain on the 21st Aug. 1813. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine, but never practised. Having gained admission to Dumas laboratory m Paris, and with him worked on a number of organic compounds, he joined Dumas in redetermining the atomic weight of carbon. In 1840 Stas returned to Belgium to enter on the Professorship of Chemistry at the Ecole Royale Militaire. He afterwards held
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