John T. Stock
John T. Stock (born January 26, 1911 in Margate (Kent) , † February 6, 2005 ) was a British chemist and chemical historian.
Stock received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of London in 1941, his master's degree in electrochemistry in 1944 and his doctorate there in analytical chemistry in 1949 (in 1965 he received a D.Sc. from the University of London). After working in industry and at the Ministry of Supply, he became Vice-Principal at Norwood Technical College in London, did a research stay at the University of Minnesota in 1954 and was at the University of Connecticut from 1956 , where he became a professor and retired in 1979 has been. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Science Museum.
As a chemical historian, he was particularly concerned with the development of chemical apparatus, electrochemistry and the students of the physical chemist Wilhelm Ostwald in the USA.
In 1992 he received the Dexter Award .
Fonts
- with P. Heath: Small-Scale Inorganic Qualitative Analysis, 1954
- Development of the Chemical Balance, 1969
- Amperometric Titrations, 1975
- with D. Vaughan: The Development of Instruments to Measure Electric Current, 1986
- The History and Preservation of Chemical Instrumentation, 1986
- with Mary Virginia Orna: Electrochemistry, Past and Present, 1989
- Ostwald's American Students: Apparatus, Techniques and Careers, 2003
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stock, John T. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist and chemical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Margate (Kent) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2005 |