Horace Tabberer Brown
Horace Tabberer Brown , born Horace Tabberer, (born July 20, 1848 , † February 6, 1925 ) was a British chemist .
Life
Brown was mostly self-taught. His interest in science was brought about by his stepfather Edward Brown, a banker and amateur naturalist. From 1865 he studied for two years at the Royal College of Chemistry and from 1866 he worked as a scientist and from 1873 head of production for the Worthington Brewery in his hometown of Burton-on-Trent , for which he investigated a wide variety of brewery-related problems from the Microbiology, chemical analysis up to geological investigations in connection with the water supply. He published around 90 scientific papers. In 1889 he became managing director. From 1890 he investigated the uptake of carbon dioxide by plants for photosynthesis , which was the subject of his Bakerian Lecture in 1905. In 1901 he was the founder of the Guinness Research Laboratories in Dublin.
Since he bought a winery for one of his sons in the Cape Province, he also dealt with viticulture . In 1908 he became a member of the Royal Commission on Whiskey and Portable Spirits.
In 1889 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Royal Medal he received in 1903 and whose Copley Medal he received in 1920. In 1894 he received the Longstaff Medal of the Chemical Society, whose Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Secretary) he was. He was also supposed to become their president, but health reasons prevented that.
The Horace Brown Medal of the Institute for Brewing and Distilling, which he helped found, is named after him.
Web links
- Obituary by Julian Baker in the Biochemical Journal, pdf
- Biography on the part of the Horace Brown Medal
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| SURNAME | Brown, Horace Tabberer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1848 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1925 |