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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    which for the present are procurable only from the living organism which probably no laboratory syn¬ thesis will ever replace, agents which are often indis¬ pensable in his study of the more complex carbon compounds. The physiologist, on the other hand, must acknowledge that structural chemistry has given him the clue to many otherwise inexplicable transformations taking place in the body; while the pharmacologist and the physician, who are familiar with the history of the scientific labours of Pasteur from beginning to end, will admit that the discipline of the chemical laboratory is no bad preparation for the business of the scientific pathologist. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Henry Edward Armstrong, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry in the City and Guilds of London Central College. Retired 1913. Edouard Buchner, Geheim-Rat. Ordinary Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Institute, University of Wurzburg. Charles Cagniard la Tour, born 31st March 1777 French engineer, created a baron in 1818. Afterwards became a member of the French Academy of Science. Died 5th July 1859. [PoggendorfFs Hanclworterbuch, vol. iv.] Heinrich Caro was born at Posen, 13th Feb. 1834. For three years a student in the Trade School in Berlin, he attended lectures at the University at the same time. In 1855 he obtained a place in a cotton printing works at Mill-
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