Nature: James Dewar, 1842–1923: a Friday Evening Lecture to the Members of the Royal Institution, on January 18, 1924
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James Dewar
Sir James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction for his research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied atomic and molecular spectroscopy, working in these fields for more than twenty-five years. Dewar was nominated for the Nobel Prize eight times — five times in Physics and three times in Chemistry…
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science · British chemist and physicist (1842–1923) · physicist · chemist · inventor · also James Dewar, Sir James Dewar, Dewar
Born 20 September 1842 · Died 27 March 1923 · Q277579
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1923· 1 entry
Died 1923-03-27.
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1919· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1919).
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1916· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1916).
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1909· 1 entry
Won Davy Medal (1909).
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1908· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1908).
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1906· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1906).
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1904· 4 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1904).
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Won Lavoisier Medal (1904).
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Became the first British subject to receive the Lavoisier Medal of the French Academy of Sciences, and in 1906, he was the first to be awarded the Matteucci Medal of the Italian Society of Sciences
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And awarded the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize for 1900–1904 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 1908, he was awarded the Albert Medal of The Society of Arts
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1901· 1 entry
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1901).
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1899· 2 entries
Won Hodgkins Medal (1899).
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Became the first recipient of the Hodgkins gold medal of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, for his contributions to knowledge of the nature and properties of atmospheric air
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1898· 1 entry
Liquid hydrogen was collected for the first time, solid hydrogen following in 1899
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1897· 1 entry
And the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1902, as well as serving on the Royal Commission established to examine London's water supply from 1893 to 1894 and the Committee on Explosives
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1896).
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1894· 1 entry
Won Rumford Medal (1894).
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1878· 2 entries
Devoted a Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution to the then-recent work of Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet, and exhibited for the first time in Great Britain the working of the Cailletet apparatus
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A long series of spectroscopic observations, the latter of which were devoted to the spectroscopic examination of various gaseous elements separated from atmospheric air under extremely cold conditions
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1877· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1877).
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1875· 1 entry
Dewar was elected Jacksonian professor of natural experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, becoming a member of Peterhouse
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1869· 1 entry
Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, after being nominated by his former mentor, Lyon Playfair
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1867· 1 entry
Dewar described several chemical formulas for benzene, which were published in 1869
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1842· 2 entries
Born 1842-09-20.
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The youngest of six boys of Ann Dewar and Thomas Dewar, a vintner
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