Peregrine Phillips

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Peregrine Phillips (* 1800 in Bristol ; † 1888 ) was a British chemist .

Phillips applied for a patent for the contact process for the production of sulfuric acid in 1831 . In the process he describes, platinum is used as a catalyst. There is no evidence of an industrial implementation at that time, it did not start until around 50 years later (in Freiberg 1875).

Phillips was the son of a tailor and probably worked in Thorne's wine shop in Bristol. He left Bristol shortly after filing his patent application. Otherwise little is known about him.

literature

  • Anton Howes: Phillips, Peregrine (1800–1888) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004
  • Winfried Pötsch among others: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, 1989.
  • Ernest Cook: Peregrine Phillips, the Inventor of the Contact Process for Sulfuric Acid. In: Nature. Volume 117, 1926, pp. 419-421.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sulfuric acid: Pumping up the volume: Review in Chemistry Chronicles September 2001 , accessed December 23, 2017.
  2. ^ According to the lexicon of important chemists von Pötsch u. a.
personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Peregrine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH 1888