| Authorised form of name | Hope; Thomas Charles (1766 - 1844); chemist; educationist |
| Dates | 1766 - 1844 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Date of birth | 21 July 1766 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 13 June 1844 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (18 June 1844) |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
High school, Edinburgh; MD (1787, Edinburgh)
Career:
Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow (1787); resigned upon appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Glasgow (1789); Joint Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh, with Joseph Black (1795); sole Professor of Chemistry upon Black's death (1799); discovered strontium (1791/2); resigned professorship (1843); died of paralysis. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 31/05/1810 |
| Age at election | 44 |
| Proposer | William Hasledine Pepys |
| William Allen |
| Gilbert Blane |
| Richard Chenevix |
| William Herschel |
| James Edward Smith |
| George Bellas Greenough |
| George Pearson |
| Maxwell Garthshore |
| Alexander Marcet |
| Charles Morton |
| Charles Hatchett |
| Relationships | Parents: John Hope FRS 1767 (1725–1786), professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh, and Juliana, daughter of a Dr Stevenson, Edinburgh physician. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 44938 |
| OtherInfo | Proved the existence of the element strontium.
Gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at 4 °C (39 °F).
Reputed to be capable of eating eight plates of turtle. |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1844 No 60 pp 525-526 |
| Code | NA3547 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MS/710/54 | Letter from Thomas Charles Hope, Buchanan House, Stirlingshire, to Robert Were Fox | 8 October 1830 |
| IM/002244 | Hope, Thomas Charles | nd |
| EC/1810/03 | Hope, Thomas Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |