biography
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| lived:
| (1813–85)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Belfast, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He practised as a physician in Belfast, where he became professor of chemistry (1849–79). He is noted for his discovery of the critical temperature of gases, above which they cannot be liquefied, however great the pressure applied. |
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