biography
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Thorpe, Sir (Thomas) Edward
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| (1845–1925)
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| biography:
| Chemist, physicist, and historian of science, born near Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, and was appointed to the chair of chemistry at the Royal College of Science, London (1885). He was also the first chemist at the British government laboratories concerned with analytical investigations for revenue purposes and control over chemical hazards. His early work was on the chemistry of vanadium, he wrote on the history of chemistry, and his Dictionary of Applied Chemistry (1893) was a long-used standard work. |
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