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Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923 - A Ruthless Chemist (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923 - A Ruthless Chemist (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
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Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around
40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural
Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of
Chemistry at the Royal Institution (1877-1923) and is remembered
principally for his efforts to liquefy hydrogen successfully in the
field that would come to be known as cryogenics. His experiments in
this field led him to develop the vacuum flask, now more commonly
known as the thermos, and in 1898 he was the first person to
successfully liquefy hydrogen. A man of many interests, he was
also, with Frederick Abel, the inventor of explosive cordite, an
achievement that involved him in a major legal battle with Alfred
Nobel. Indeed, Dewar's career saw him involved in a number of
public quarrels with fellow scientists; he was a fierce and
sometimes unscrupulous defender of his rights and his claims to
priority in a way that throws much light on the scientific spirit
and practice of his day. This, the first scholarly biography of
Dewar, seeks to resurrect and reinterpret a man who was a giant of
his time, but is now sadly overlooked. In so doing, the book will
shed much new light on the scientific culture of the
late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and the development
of the field of chemistry in Britain.
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