Benjamin Collins Brodie Jr.
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet FRS (born February 5, 1817 in London , † November 24, 1880 in Torquay ) was an English chemist .
Live and act
His father was Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie , 1st Baronet. He studied at Harrow and Balliol College in Oxford, graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1838 and was with Justus Liebig in Gießen in 1845 . In 1847 he worked in his private London laboratory. From 1855 to 1873 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford . He was a member of the Royal Society .
He investigated beeswax (with Justus Liebig), the allotropic forms of carbon , discovered acid peroxides in 1863 and worked on the determination of the atomic mass of graphite, for example.
He also introduced his own chemical notation, drawing inspiration from the logical system of George Boole (Investigations of the laws of thought, 1854). He published it from 1866 at the Royal Society as the Calculus of Chemical Operations . In contrast to Berzelius' standard notation , he used Greek letters, these did not designate atoms, but chemical operations based on a unit volume of one liter, with hydrogen corresponding to the unit (with Greek symbol ). The system played a role in contemporary discussions of the 1860s and 1870s, though few chemists fully understood it - what they mainly took up was the prediction, derived from its notation, that elements like chlorine contained hydrogen. Ultimately, it failed because of the inability to describe isomerism and stereoisomerism. He spent his last years in Torquay.
When his father died in 1862 , he had inherited his title of baronet , of Boxford in the County of Suffolk. At his own death in 1880, the title fell to his son Benjamin Vincent Sellon Brodie (1862-1938).
literature
- Winfried Pötsch et al. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
Web links
- Biography at Hyle (English)
- Entry to Brodie; Sir; Benjamin Collins (1817-1880) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 156, 1866, pp. 781-859; Volume 167, 1877, pp. 35-116
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brodie, Benjamin Collins, Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, 2nd Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1880 |
| Place of death | Torquay |