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Authorised form of nameWright; Charles Romley Alder (1844 - 1894)
Dates1844 - 1894
Place of birthSouthend, Essex, England
Date of birth1844
Date of death25 July 1894
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
Owen's College, Manchester. DSc
Career:
Chemist, Runcorn Soap and Alkali Works, Weston; Assistant, Chemical Laboratory, St Thomas' Hospital, London; Lecturer in Chemistry, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington (1871-1894); Examiner in Chemistry, University of Durham; a disease of the hip joint caused him to be lame
First to synthesize heroin
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1881
RelationshipsSon of Romley Wright, civil engineer
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1894-1895 vol 57 pp v-vii signed by T E T
Royal Society codeNA1457
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
NLB/4/118Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Charles Romley Alder Wright, Fellow of the Royal Society14 February 1890
NLB/3/613Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings23 July 1889
NLB/10/291Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1894
NLB/11/117Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thorpe, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1895
NLB/9/938Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons28 July 1894
RR/11/192Referee's report by Charles Romley Alder Wright, on a paper 'On the liquation of metals of the platinum group' by Edward Matthey18 April 1892
RR/11/272Referee's report by Charles Romley Alder Wright, on a paper 'On the metallurgy of lead' by J H Hannay5 June 1893
RR/6/177Referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on two papers 'Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine, and of its products of decomposition.—Part III' and 'Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine, and of its products of decomposition.- Part IV' by Augustus Matthiessen and Charles Romley Alder Wright8 July 1869
RR/6/176Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on two papers 'Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine, and of its products of decomposition.—Part III' and 'Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine, and of its products of decomposition.- Part IV' by Augustus Matthiessen and Charles Romley Alder Wright21 April 1869
EC/1881/22Wright, Charles Romley Alder: certificate of election to the Royal Society
AP/65/11Unpublished paper, 'On the voltaic circles producible by the mutual neutralisation of acid and alkaline fluids, and on various related forms of electromotors' by [Charles Romley] Adler Wright and C Thompson1888
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