Henry John Horstman Fenton
Henry John Horstman Fenton (born February 18, 1854 in London , † January 13, 1929 there ) was a British chemist . Before the turn of the century he developed the Fenton reaction , an oxidation of organic substrates catalyzed by iron salts with hydrogen peroxide in an acidic medium. The Fentons reagent is also used to destroy difficult to break down organic compounds like trichlorethylene and tetrachlorethylene .
Henry Fenton studied at Magdalen College School (Oxford), King's College London and Christ's College Cambridge (United Kingdom). He worked since 1878 as a chemistry assistant ("University Demonstrator") and from 1904 to 1924 as a "University Lecturer" in Cambridge .
Works (selection)
- Outlines of Chemistry.
- Notes on Qualitative Analysis.
literature
- Obituary notices . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . tape 127 , no. 806 , June 2, 1930, ISSN 1364-5021 , p. i – xxi , doi : 10.1098 / rspa.1930.0072 , JSTOR : 95397 ( royalsocietypublishing.org [PDF]).
Web links
- Krzysztof Barbusiński: Biography of Fenton (PDF, 2009)
- Literature by and about Henry John Horstman Fenton in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Fenton's Reagent Definition Page toxics.usgs.gov.
- ^ Fenton, Henry John Horstman . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 2 : Chalmers – Fytche . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1944, pp. 481 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fenton, Henry John Horstman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1929 |
| Place of death | London |