Percy Faraday Frankland

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Percy Faraday Frankland (born October 3, 1858 in London , † October 28, 1946 in Lochawe , Argyllshire ) was a British chemist.

He was the son of the chemist Edward Frankland and studied from 1875 to 1878 geology at the Royal School of Mines in London (where his father chemistry taught) and then went to study chemistry to Würzburg , where he in 1880 when John Wislicenus with the work over the action of Diazonaphthalene on salicylic acid . Frankland was then assistant in chemistry at the Royal School of Mines and received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of London in 1881. In 1888 he became a professor at University College Dundee and in 1894 at Mason College (later the University of Birmingham). In 1918 he retired .

Like his father, he also dealt with bacteriology and water analysis and, following Louis Pasteur, with the chemistry of bacterial fermentation and the optical activity of the substances produced. He was particularly interested in the relationship between structure and optical activity, and he and his students brought together extensive observation material, the value of which is limited from today's point of view, as he neglected the influence of solvents, for example.

He was CBE (1920) and Fellow of the Royal Society (1891) and an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews . In 1882 he married the daughter Grace (1858-1946) of the othologist Joseph Toynbee , who did research in microbiology, partly with her husband and his father. In 1903 she wrote a popular science book on bacteria. Frankland and his wife also wrote a book on Louis Pasteur (London, Cassell 1898). In 1919 he received the Davy Medal .

Francis Aston is one of his students .

literature

  • Winfried Pötsch u. a .: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
  • William Edward Garner: Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Society 1948 , pp. 697-715

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Percy F. Frankland at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Frankland, Percy Faraday
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1946
Place of death Lochawe