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Authorised form of namePrice; Thomas Slater (1875 - 1949); chemist
Dates1875 - 1949
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWednesbury, South Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth24 August 1875
Place of deathNursing home near Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of death29 October 1949
OccupationChemist
Research fieldChemistry
Physical chemistry
ActivityEducation:
Wesleyan school of which his father was Headmaster; King Edward's School, Birmingham (1887); Mason College; DSc (Lond, Birm); PhD (Leip)
Career:
Commenced research work at Mason College, after which he worked in Leipzig, Germany; worked in the laboratory of Svante Arrhenius, Stockholm, Sweden (1898); returned to Mason College (1898) upo completion of his Stockholm research; senior lecturer in chemistry, Birmingham University; head of the chemistry department at the Birmingham Central Technical College (1903); embarked on secret war work at the Royal Naval Experimental Station, Stratford, with the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (1916); Director Photographic Research Association (1920); chair of chemistry of Heriot-Watt College (1931-1940).
Honours:
OBE
Memberships:
RSE
The Chemical Society
The Royal Institute of Chemistry
The Royal Photographic Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/05/1924
Age at election49
ProposerWilliam Robert Bousfield
Frederick Soddy
James Walker
Harold Baily Dixon
Thomas Edward Thorpe
Thomas Martin Lowry
Arthur Smithells
John Theodore Hewitt
Jocelyn Field Thorpe
Frederic Stanley Kipping
William Henry Perkin
Alexander Scott
William Augustus Tilden
Arthur William Crossley
Percy Faraday Frankland
RelationshipsParents: Mary Anne Slater and Thomas Price, headmaster of a Wesleyan elementary school.
Spouse: Florence Beardmore.
Children: Leslie; Florence Mary; and Eileen.
PublishedWorksRCN 8965
OtherInfoDistinguished physical chemist, who investigated optical activity; chemical dynamics, especially of catalysis, electrochemical preparation of disulphides and diselenides; rapid electro-analysis of brass.
Disproved Werner's Six-membered Ring Theory of Metal-ammonia Complexes by Introduction of Sulphonyldiacetic Residue into Complex.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 469-474, plate, by James Kendall
CodeNA728
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/40/114Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'A mechanism of gelatinisation' by Francis L Usher11 June 1929
RR/41/74Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'Structure in very permeable collodion gel films and its significance in filtration problems' by William Joseph ElfordFebruary 1930
RR/41/140Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'The scattering of light in protein solutions. I—Gelatin solutions and gels' by K KrishnamurtiJune 1930
RR/54/53Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'The formation and constitution of crystals of lead salts containing water-soluble colloid' by F D Miles16 April 1935
EC/1924/10Price, Thomas Slater: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/40/43Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'Some physical conditions affecting the setting of gelatin and the bearing of the results on the theory of gel formation' by Winnifred Bertha Pleass November 1929
RR/40/51Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'The electrophoresis of protein sols the presence of gold sols— albumen, gelatin and casein' by E. B. R. Prideaux and F. O. HowittSeptember 1929
RR/47/22Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'On the absorption spectra of some higher oxides' by Arun K Dutta and Prabhat K Sen Gupta14 September 1932
RR/54/56Second referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'The formation and constitution of crystals of lead salts containing water-soluble colloid' by F D MilesMay 1935
ACS/1/2/3/363Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to [Thomas] Slater Price [Esquire], O. B. E, D. Sc., F. R. S., British Photographic Research [Association]19 May 1928
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