John Arnold Cranston

John Arnold Cranston (born August 15, 1891 in Shanghai , † April 25, 1972 in Glasgow ) was a British chemist.

Life

Cranston was the son of hydraulic engineer David Cranston and his wife Marion Auld. He studied chemistry at the University of Glasgow with a bachelor's degree in 1912. He then worked with Frederick Soddy in Glasgow until he went to Aberdeen in 1914. He discovered Protactinium with Soddy independently of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner . Soddy communicated this to Cranston in 1918. The work of Cranston was initially unpublished, as he was a soldier in 1915 in World War I. In 1921 his dissertation arose from this in Glasgow ( An investigation of some connecting links in the disintegration series of uranium and thorium ). In 1919 he became a lecturer at the Royal College of Science and Technology (now the University of Strathclyde ). In 1957 he retired. In 1966 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

He continued to study radioactive isotopes and later electrochemistry in the 1930s. In 1963 he received an honorary doctorate (LLD).

Cranston was married to Helen Paton Scott, with whom he had five children.

literature

Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, 1989, p. 99.

Fonts

The structure of matter. 1924.
Rational approach to chemical principles. 1947.

Web links

Biography on the website of the University of Glasgow.

Individual evidence

↑ Soddy, Cranston, Proc. Roy. Soc. A, Vol. 94, 1918, p. 384, Cranston, Soddy, The parent of Actinium , Nature, Vol. 100, 1918, pp. 498-499
^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 18, 2019 .
↑ Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna: The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side. Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-938334-4 , p. 265

personal data
SURNAME	Cranston, John Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shanghai
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1972
Place of death	Glasgow

[1] Soddy, Cranston, Proc. Roy. Soc. A, Vol. 94, 1918, p. 384, Cranston, Soddy, The parent of Actinium , Nature, Vol. 100, 1918, pp. 498-499

[2] Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 18, 2019 .

[3] Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna: The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side. Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-938334-4 , p. 265