biography
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| (1865–1922)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist and educator, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He emigrated to the USA in 1894 and became affiliated with the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago (1894–1911). During that period, he carried out important studies on sulphur and on the formation of solid and liquid forms of sulphur. He also developed methods of measuring vapour pressure at high temperatures. He was head of the chemistry department at Columbia University (1911–19). |
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