biography
pronunciation:
[dyooer]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1842–1923)
|
| biography:
| Chemist and physicist, born in Kincardine, Fife, E Scotland, UK. He studied chemistry at Edinburgh, and in 1875 became professor at Cambridge. Two years later he also became professor at the Royal Institution, London, where he lived, lectured, and pursued a wide range of experimental research; he visited Cambridge rarely. In the 1870s he invented the Dewar flask (or thermos flask), using it in his studies of low temperatures and gas liquefaction (1892). With Frederick Abel he invented cordite, for long the British standard military propellent. |
|
|
