biography
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| (1872–1941)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Galashiels, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. He studied at Birmingham and the City and Guilds College, London. After holding a number of senior academic posts, he was appointed professor of organic chemistry at Manchester in 1913, and professor of physical and inorganic chemistry in 1922. He worked on an electronic theory of organic chemical reactions, and classified reagents by charge type, suggesting the existence of alternating electrical polarity along a chain of atoms. |
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