Frederick Mollwo Perkin
Frederick Mollwo Perkin (born November 8, 1869 in Sudbury (London) , † May 24, 1928 in London ) was a British chemist.
He was the son of William Henry Perkin and studied chemistry at the Royal College of Science in London, at the University of Edinburgh, the Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh and at the University of Würzburg , where he received his doctorate under Arthur Hantzsch . In 1897 he became the head of the chemistry department of the Borough Polytechnic Institute. In 1909 he entered his father's private laboratory, which he also took over. In addition, he opened laboratories in London and for several years in Bradford.
He dealt with organic electrochemistry and advised on the production of heating oil from coal and peat, dealt with coal coking at low temperatures and the processing of peat into briquettes.
Fonts
- Practical Methods of Electrochemistry, 1905
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 340
- JL Simonsen, Obituary in J. Chemical Society, 1928, pp. 3299-3308, first page
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| SURNAME | Perkin, Frederick Mollwo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sudbury (London) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1928 |
| Place of death | London |