Arthur George Perkin
Arthur George Perkin (born December 13, 1861 in Sudbury near London , † May 30, 1937 in Leeds ) was a British chemist.
He was the son of William Henry Perkin and experimented in his private laboratory as a teenager. He studied chemistry from 1878 at the Royal College of Chemistry in London, from 1880 at Anderson's College in Glasgow (now University of Strathclyde ) and in 1881 in the dyes department of Yorkshire College in Leeds (later the University of Leeds ). From 1882 he worked for the dye company Hardmann & Holden in Manchester, which he headed from 1888. In 1892 he went to Yorkshire College as a lecturer and research chemist for dyes and became a professor there in 1916. In 1926 he retired, but remained scientifically active.
He was involved in the isolation and elucidation of the structure of many natural dyes such as quercetin , luteolin , apigenin , morin , catechin , gossypetin , myricetin . From 1905 to 1907 he worked on indican and other indigo dyes.
In 1924 he received the Davy Medal . In 1893 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1903 the Royal Society of London .
His brother William Henry Perkin Jr. was also a chemistry professor.
Fonts
- with Arthur Ernest Everest: Natural organic coloring matters. 1918 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . In: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ^ Entry on Perkin, Arthur George (1861 - 1937) in the archives of the Royal Society , London
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| SURNAME | Perkin, Arthur George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sudbury near London |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1937 |
| Place of death | Leeds |