| Authorised form of name | Barger; George (1878 - 1939); chemist |
| Dates | 1878 - 1939 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Manchester, England |
| Date of birth | 04 April 1878 |
| Place of death | Aeschi, on the Lake of Thun, Switzerland, Europe |
| Date of death | 06/01/1939 |
| Occupation | chemist |
| Research field | Organic chemistry |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Utrecht; The Hague High School; King's College, Cambridge MA; University College London DSc
Career: Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge (1903-1909); Head of the Chemical Department at Goldsmiths’ College (1909-1913); Professor of Chemistry at Royal Holloway College (1913-1914); Professor of chemistry in relation to medicine at the University of Edinburgh (1919-1937); Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow (1937-1939). |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/05/1919 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| Proposer | Frederick Gowland Hopkins; William Jackson Pope; George Henry Falkiner Nuttall; William Maddock Bayliss; Joseph Barcroft; Albert Charles Seward; Arthur Harden; Arthur Robertson Cushny; Henry Hallett Dale |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1938 |
| Relationships | Parents: Gerrit Barger and Eleanor Higginbotham.
Spouse: Florence Emily Thomas (1904). |
| PublishedWorks | RCN R78746
RCN R78771
RCN R78749
RCN R78748 |
| OtherInfo | Investigated tyramine; synthesis of thyroxine; and thiamin. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Related images | Discover a selection of related images in our picture library |
| Image | 
|
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 63-85, plate, by H H Dale
References:
A F Bristow, T Barrowcliffe and D R Bangham, 'Standardization of biological medicines: the first hundred years, 1900-2000' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 271-289 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/8129522 |
| Code | NA6147 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/Russell/99156 | Barger, George | nd |
| NLB/56/175 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [George] Barger, FRS | 6 December 1918 |
| RR/36/46 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'On intracellular oxidation-reduction potential' by Louis Rapkine and René Wurmser | 25 August 1927 |
| RR/44/20 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'Crystalline vitamin D' by F A Askew, R B Bourdillon, H M Bruce, Robert Kenneth Callow, J St L Philpot and T A Webster | 10 December 1931 |
| RR/27/88 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'The periodic opacity of certain colloids in progressively increasing concentrations of electrolytes' by J Holker | 28 August 1922 |
| NLB/62/168 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George] Barger, FRS | 15 December 1921 |
| RR/35/1 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'A theory of partial osmotic pressures and membrane equilibria, with special reference to the application of Dalton's Law to haemoglobin solutions in the presence of salts' by Gilbert Smithson Adair | October 1927 |
| NLB/67/871 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George] Barger, FRS | 30 March 1925 |
| NLB/69/543 | Copy letter from Henry Hallet Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [George] Barger, FRS | 3 June 1926 |
| NLB/70/840 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George] Barger, FRS | 13 October 1927 |
| EC/1919/02 | Barger, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/57/577 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor G [George] Barger, FRS | 9 December 1919 |
| RR/45/6 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'The antiseptic and trypanocidal action of certain styryl and anil benzthiazole derivatives' by Carl Hamilton Browning, Julius Berend Cohen, S Ellingworth and R Gulbransen | nd [January 1931] |
| RR/49/123 | Second referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'Studies on the formation of complex oxidation and condensation products of phenols. A contribution to the investigation of the origin and nature of humic acid. Part I. -Studies of the reactivity of simple monocyclic quinones' by H G H Erdtman | [October 1933] |
| RR/45/30 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'Some aliphatic and aromatic amino deriviatives of a-quinoline methiodide' by Julius Berend Cohen, K E Cooper and P G Marshall | [January 1931] |
| RR/49/122 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'Studies on the formation of complex oxidation and condensation products of phenols. A contribution to the investigation of the origin and nature of humic acid. Part I. -Studies of the reactivity of simple monocyclic quinones' by H G H Erdtman | [March 1933] |
| RR/26/9 | Referee's report by George Barger, on a paper 'The heat developed by the action of caustic soda on cotton (“mercerisation”)' by Thomas Barratt and J W Lewis | 3 January 1922 |
| MC/34/7 | Letter from [George] Barger, Chemistry Department, University of Edinburgh, and 48 St Alban's Road, to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 12 November 1919 |
| MC/34/6 | Letter from George Barger, Chemistry Department, University of Edinburgh, to The Secretaries, Royal Society | 21 May 1919 |