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RefNoEC/1895/19
Previous numbersCert XI, 288
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TitlePurdie, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationProfessor of Chemistry in the University of St Andrews. Author of the following: - 'On the Synthesis of alpha Isoheptane'; and 'On the Actino of Sodium Alcoholates on Fumaric Ethers' (Trans Chem Soc, 1881); 'Action of Sodium Alkyl Oxides on Ethereal Furmarates' (ibid, 1885); 'The Action of Metallic Alkylates on Mixtures of Ethereal Salts with Alcohols' (ibid, 1887). Joint Author with W Marshall, BSc, of : - 'Action of Alcohols on Ethereal Salts in presence of Small Quantities of Sodic Alkylates' (Trans Chem Soc, 1888); 'The Addition of the Elements of Alcohol to the Ethereal Salts of Unsaturated Acids' (ibid, 1891). Joint Author with J Wallace Walker, MA, of : - 'Resolution of Lactic Acid into its Optically Active Components' (ibid, 1892); 'Optically Active Ethoxysuccinic Acid' (ibid, 1893).
ProposersFrom General Knowledge: Hugo Muller
From Personal Knowledge: T E Thorpe; F R Japp; Percy F Frankland; Alex Crum Brown; Henry E Armstrong; H E Roscoe; R Meldola; E Frankland; W Ramsay; Oliver J Lodge
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Purdie, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1412Purdie; Thomas (1843 - 1916)1843 - 1916
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