Thomas Charles Hope

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Thomas Charles Hope

Thomas Charles Hope (born July 21, 1766 in Edinburgh , † June 13, 1844 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish doctor and chemist . He was one of the discoverers of the chemical element strontium .

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Thomas Charles Hope was the youngest son of the botanist John Hope (1725–1786) and his wife Juliana Stevenson. After graduating from high school in Edinburgh, he studied at the University of Edinburgh , where he became a doctor of medicine in 1787. In October 1787 he went to Glasgow , where he became Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow . In 1789 he also took over the assistant professorship for medicine and taught both subjects until 1791, when he gave up lectures on chemistry.

From 1795 until 1799 he was Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh with Joseph Black .

Hope yielded 1793 the experimental proof that the at Strontian discovered natural mineral Strontianit , as already by Adair Crawford suggested a new alkaline earth contains, stretching from barium different. In 1805 he proved that water has its greatest density a few degrees above freezing point .

Hope was a member of numerous scientific societies:

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  • Tentamen inaugurale, quaedam de plantarum motibus et vita complectens ... Balfour et Smellie, Edinburgh 1787 - dissertation
  • Account of a mineral from Strontian, and of a peculiar species of Earth Which it Contains . In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Volume 4, Part 2, 1798, pp. 3-39
  • Experiments and Observations upon the Contraction of Water by Heat at Low Temperatures . In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Volume 5, 1805, pp. 379-405

literature

  • WP Doyle: Thomas Charles Hope, MD, FRSE, FRS, (1766-1844) . Edinburgh 1982

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  • William Anderson: The Scottish Nation: or, The Namen, Families, Literature, Honors, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland . 3 volumes, Fullarton, Edinburgh 1862
  • Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro: The Physician as Man of Letters, Science and Action . 2nd edition, Livingstone, Edinburgh 1951

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SURNAME Hope, Thomas Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1844
Place of death Edinburgh