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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    electro-chemical theory of combination, which, how¬ ever, requires that in all cases of union a small quantity of some third substance, not necessarily water, must be present. It will be necessary, how¬ ever, to study the conditions of chemical change yet more fully and completely before anything more than partial and tentative hypothesis will be within reach. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Svante Auguste Arrhenius, F.R.S. Director of the Nobel Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. Herbert Brereton Baker, M.A. and D.Sc. Oxon, F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London. Charles Blagden, born 17th April 1748. Knt., F.R.S. M.D. Edin. 1768. Sec. R.S. Medical Officer in the British Army. He died in the house of Berthollet at Auteuil, 26th March 1820. [.Dictionary of National Biography.] Rudolph Julius Emmanuel Clausius, born 2nd Jan. 1822 at Corlin (Pomerania). Privat-docent in the University of Berlin, he passed to the Professorship of Physics in the Uni¬ versity of Zurich. Returning to Germany in 1867, he was appointed Professor of Physics first in the University of Wurzburg, and in 1869 in the University of Bonn. He died at Bonn, 24th Aug. 1888. [PoggendorfPs Handworterbuch, vols. ii. and iii.] Louis Casimir de Coppet, born in New York, 21st July 1841. Ph.D. Heidelberg. William Crookes, Knt., O.M., LL.D., F.R.S. Harold Baily Dixon, M.A. Oxon, F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Manchester,
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