Dewar, James ♂

Education

LL.D. 20.11.1893 (Recommended by Lord Bute).

Birth/childhood

Born 20.9.1842 son of Thomas Dewar, Kincardine on Forth and Anne Eadie.

Career

Educated at Edinburgh University and University of Ghent under Kekule.

Assistant in chemistry to Lord Lyon Playfair. Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University. [University professor]

Fullarian Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution, London.

Co - inventor of cordite and inventor of the thermos flask. [Inventor]

F.R.S. F.R.S.E. LL.D. Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Knighted 1904.

Publications

"On the changes produced in magnetised iron and steels by cooling to the temperature of liquid air," by James Dewar...and J.A. Fleming. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 60, January 1, 1896: 57-71.

Death

Died 27.3.1923,

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