| Authorised form of name | Price; Thomas Slater (1875 - 1949); chemist |
| Dates | 1875 - 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Wednesbury, South Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 24 August 1875 |
| Place of death | Nursing home near Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 29 October 1949 |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Physical chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/05/1924 |
| Age at election | 49 |
| Proposer | William 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 |
| Relationships | Parents: Mary Anne Slater and Thomas Price, headmaster of a Wesleyan elementary school.
Spouse: Florence Beardmore.
Children: Leslie; Florence Mary; and Eileen. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 8965 |
| OtherInfo | Distinguished 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 Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 469-474, plate, by James Kendall |
| Code | NA728 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/40/114 | Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'A mechanism of gelatinisation' by Francis L Usher | 11 June 1929 |
| RR/41/74 | Referee'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 Elford | February 1930 |
| RR/41/140 | Referee's report by Thomas Slater Price, on a paper 'The scattering of light in protein solutions. I—Gelatin solutions and gels' by K Krishnamurti | June 1930 |
| RR/54/53 | 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 Miles | 16 April 1935 |
| EC/1924/10 | Price, Thomas Slater: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/40/43 | Referee'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/40/51 | Referee'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. Howitt | September 1929 |
| RR/47/22 | Referee'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 Gupta | 14 September 1932 |
| RR/54/56 | Second 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 Miles | May 1935 |
| ACS/1/2/3/363 | Letter 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 |