Walter Noel Hartley

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Sir Walter Noel Hartley (born February 3, 1847 in Lichfield , † September 11, 1913 ) was an Irish chemist who was known for contributions to spectroscopy .

Hartley was from 1879 professor of chemistry at the Royal College of Science in Dublin .

Hartley was a pioneer of spectroscopy in chemistry. He carried out investigations into the connection between the structure and spectra of organic compounds (beginning in 1872 with the discovery of infrared spectra of organic molecules with AK Huntingdon) and was one of the first to establish a connection between spectra and position in the periodic table (1883). In 1881 he suspected the presence of ozone in the atmosphere. An absorption band of ozone in the ultraviolet that he found in 1880 bears his name (Hartley band). In 1889 he laid the quantitative foundations for steel hardening and he dealt with applied topics important for Ireland such as dyes for the textile industry, brewing and alcohol distillation and agents against potato rot (which caused the Great Famine in Ireland ).

In 1903/04 he was President of Section B (Chemistry) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1884) and was ennobled as a Knight Bachelor in 1911 . In 1877 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1901 he received a D.Sc. from the Royal University of Ireland.

His wife May Laffan (1850-1916, married 1882) was a writer. Their son died in Gallipoli in 1915 .

Fonts

  • Air and its Relations to Life , 1876
  • Water, Air and Disinfectants , 1877
  • Quantitative Analysis , 1887

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartley, Walter Noel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichfield
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1913