W V Farrar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5236302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W V Farrar |
| GIVEN NAMES | W V |
| FAMILY NAME | Farrar |
| SIGNATURE | FARRAR W V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Technology, University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Edward Schunck, F. R. S., a pioneer of natural-product chemistry
Organic chemistry was, in its origin, the study of the chemical compounds found in living matter. These substances, however, are usually of so complex a composition, and so difficult to separate from one another in a pure state, that their study made little headway until attention was concentrated on the much simpler compounds present in coal gas and coal tar. Both of these were available on die industrial scale in many parts of Europe from 1820 …
Robert Angus Smith, F. R. S. and ‘sanitary science’
IN the library of the old Chemistry Department in Manchester University stood the busts of three ‘great chemists’, Lavoisier, Dalton, and Angus Smith. History has dealt less kindly with Smith than with the other two, but he does not deserve to be totally forgotten. As the first Alkali Inspector under the Act of 1863 (and for several years the only one) his effect on the face of industrial Britain should not be under-estimated. We are reserving th…
Andrew Ure, F. R. S. and the philosophy of manufactures
TO the historian of the present day, Andrew Ure (1778-1857) is remembered (if at all) as one of the ghostly figures which flit through the footnotes to Das Kapital, pleading ineffectually for the factory system and the rights of capital. Yet this ‘Pindar of the automatic factory’ as Marx called him, was of importance in his time, as chemist, teacher, and one of the first ‘consultants’ of applied science; a man who, pompous and foolish as he often…
Chemistry in Space” and the Complex Atom
Synopsis The rise of stereochemistry in the 1880s stimulated a few organic chemists to speculate about the complexity of atoms
Nineteenth-Century Speculations on the Complexity of the Chemical Elements
Synopsis The atomic theory of Dalton implied that there were more than 30 different kinds of matter, the chemical elements. William Prout (1815) was the first of a long line of distinguished speculators who sought to show, by argument and experiment, that this diversity overlay a more fundamental unity. Contrary to a common opinion, this was not an eccentric and unpopular movement, but involved many of the great names of nineteenth-century chemis…
Nineteenth-Century Speculations on the Complexity of the Chemical Elements
Synopsis The atomic theory of Dalton implied that there were more than 30 different kinds of matter, the chemical elements. William Prout (1815) was the first of a long line of distinguished speculators who sought to show, by argument and experiment, that this diversity overlay a more fundamental unity. Contrary to a common opinion, this was not an eccentric and unpopular movement, but involved many of the great names of nineteenth-century chemis…
Nineteenth-Century Speculations on the Complexity of the Chemical Elements
Synopsis The atomic theory of Dalton implied that there were more than 30 different kinds of matter, the chemical elements. William Prout (1815) was the first of a long line of distinguished speculators who sought to show, by argument and experiment, that this diversity overlay a more fundamental unity. Contrary to a common opinion, this was not an eccentric and unpopular movement, but involved many of the great names of nineteenth-century chemis…
Chemistry in Space” and the Complex Atom
Synopsis The rise of stereochemistry in the 1880s stimulated a few organic chemists to speculate about the complexity of atoms
Andrew Ure, F. R. S. and the philosophy of manufactures
TO the historian of the present day, Andrew Ure (1778-1857) is remembered (if at all) as one of the ghostly figures which flit through the footnotes to Das Kapital, pleading ineffectually for the factory system and the rights of capital. Yet this ‘Pindar of the automatic factory’ as Marx called him, was of importance in his time, as chemist, teacher, and one of the first ‘consultants’ of applied science; a man who, pompous and foolish as he often…
Robert Angus Smith, F. R. S. and ‘sanitary science’
IN the library of the old Chemistry Department in Manchester University stood the busts of three ‘great chemists’, Lavoisier, Dalton, and Angus Smith. History has dealt less kindly with Smith than with the other two, but he does not deserve to be totally forgotten. As the first Alkali Inspector under the Act of 1863 (and for several years the only one) his effect on the face of industrial Britain should not be under-estimated. We are reserving th…
Edward Schunck, F. R. S., a pioneer of natural-product chemistry
Organic chemistry was, in its origin, the study of the chemical compounds found in living matter. These substances, however, are usually of so complex a composition, and so difficult to separate from one another in a pure state, that their study made little headway until attention was concentrated on the much simpler compounds present in coal gas and coal tar. Both of these were available on die industrial scale in many parts of Europe from 1820 …
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