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William Prout
William Prout FRS was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian. He is known for proposing the Prout's hypothesis.
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science · British chemist (1785–1850) · chemist · physician · also William Prout, Prout
Born 15 January 1785 · Died 9 April 1850 · Q775400
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“Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms”
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1920· 1 entry
Ernest Rutherford chose the name of the newly discovered proton to, among other reasons, give credit to Prout
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1850· 1 entry
Died 1850-04-09.
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1831· 2 entries
Awarded Goulstonian Lectures (1831).
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On the application of chemistry to medicine
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1827· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1827).
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Proposed the classification of substances in food into sugars and starches, oily bodies, and albumen, which would later become known as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
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1823· 1 entry
Discovered that stomach juices contain hydrochloric acid, which can be separated from gastric juice by distillation
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1815· 1 entry
Based on the tables of atomic weights available at the time, he anonymously hypothesized that the atomic weight of every element is an integer multiple of that of hydrogen, suggesting that the hydrogen atom is the only t
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1814· 1 entry
Prout married Agnes Adam, daughter of Alexander Adam, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and together they had six children
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1785· 1 entry
Born 1785-01-15.
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