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Wyndham Dunstan | |
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| Born | May 24, 1861 |
| Died | April 20, 1949 (aged 87) |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Royal Pharmaceutical Society Imperial Institute |
Sir Wyndham Rowland Dunstan KCMG FRS FCS (1861-1949), was professor of chemistry and Director of the Imperial Institute in London.
Dunstan was born on 24 May 1861 at Chester Castle, where his father, John Dunstan (1797-1874), was Constable. He was educated at Bedford School before becoming an assistant to Theophilus Redwood, Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London.
In 1884, Dunstan was appointed as Demonstrator in the University Laboratories at the University of Oxford and, in 1885, as University Lecturer in Chemistry. In 1886, he succeeded Redwood as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and, in 1903, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Imperial Institute in London.
He acted as President of the International Association of Tropical Agriculture and was a Member of the Advisory Committee for Tropical Agriculture. [1] [2]
In 1886, he married Emilie Fordyce Maclean. After she died in 1893, he married Violet Mary Claudia Hanbury-Tracy (1876-1963), daughter of Frederick Hanbury-Tracy, in 1900. He died on 20 April 1949.
Frederic Stanley Kipping FRS was an English chemist. He undertook much of the pioneering work on silicon polymers and coined the term silicone.
Sir Rowland Harry Biffen FRS was a British botanist, mycologist, geneticist and a professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge who worked on breeding wheat varieties. He was also a gifted artist known for his landscapes in watercolours. He was the founder of the Journal of Agricultural Science.
Percy Faraday Frankland CBE FRS was a British chemist.
Lucy Everest Boole FRIC was an Irish chemist and pharmacist who was the first woman to research pharmacy in England. She was the first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women in the Royal Free Hospital, and the first female Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.
The Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry is the named Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, established through an endowment of £36,000 in 1913 by the Hall family. This chair has been occupied by the following chemists:
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester is one of the largest Departments of Chemistry in the United Kingdom, with over 600 undergraduate and more than 200 postgraduate research students.
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