William Arthur Bone

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William Arthur Bone (born March 19, 1871 in Stockton-on-Tees , † June 11, 1938 ) was an English chemist .

Bone graduated from the University in Manchester and received his doctorate in 1893 at Victor Meyer at the University of Heidelberg . He was then a lecturer in Manchester and from 1906 professor of fuels at the University of Leeds . In 1912 he moved to Imperial College London . In 1936 he retired.

Bone dealt with the combustion of hydrocarbons and the chemistry and mechanics of flames and explosions.

In 1936 he received the Davy Medal . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1905) and gave its Bakerian Lecture in 1932 .

Fonts

  • Coal and its Scientific Uses, 1918
  • with DTA Townend: Flame and Combustion, 1927
  • with GW Himus: Coal and its Constitution and Uses, 1936

literature

  • GI Finch, AC Egerton, Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Society, 1939

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of William Arthur Bone at academictree.org, accessed on January 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bone, William Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton-on-teas
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1938