| Authorised form of name | Andrews; Thomas (1813 - 1885); chemist |
| Dates | 1813 - 1885 |
| Place of birth | Belfast |
| Date of birth | 19 December 1813 |
| Place of death | Belfast |
| Date of death | 26 November 1885 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Borough churchyard, Belfast |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Belfast Royal Academy; studied under Thomas Thomson (FRS 1811) at Glasgow and under Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas (For Mem RS 1840) and L J Thenard (For Mem 1824) in Paris; Trinity College, Dublin studying classics and science; Edinburgh, MD (Edinburgh)
Career:
Practised medicine, Belfast (1836-); Professor of Chemistry, Royal Belfast Academic Institution; gave up practice (1845); first Professor of Chemistry, Queen's College, Belfast (1845-1879); Vice-President of Queen's College, Belfast (1845); President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1867); President, British Association (1874); declined a knighthood (1880);
Memberships:
MRCSE; MRIA (1849); FRSE (1870)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1849 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1844
Lectures:
Bakerian 1869 and 1876 |
| Relationships | Son of Thomas John Andrews, linen merchant, of Belfast and his wife Elizabeth Stevenson; married (1842) Jean Hardie, daughter of Major Hardie of the 42nd Highlanders |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Irish Innovators
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1886 vol 41 pp xi-xv signed by A C B
References:
R Sharp, 'Some final thoughts of Sir John Herschel, FRS' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 183-186
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
J Ke and M Poliakoff, 'The critical point of CO2 and N2: an experiment inspired by 'Notes and Records'' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 171-174 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/56913760 |
| Royal Society code | NA5916 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1849/02 | Andrews, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000102 | Andrews, Thomas | nd |
| MS/743/1/11 | Testimonial by Thomas Andrews, Queen's College, Belfast, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone | 6 June 1855 |
| HS/1/347 | Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Andrews, dated at Collingwood | 5 February 1871 |
| RR/6/15 | Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states of matter' by Thomas Andrews | 19 July 1869 |
| RR/6/113 | Referee's report by Thomas Andrews, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical properties of aqueous mixtures and solutions' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page | 21 April 1869 |
| RR/7/434 | Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On the gaseous state of matter' by Thomas Andrews | 1876 |
| RR/6/110 | Referee's report by Thomas Andrews, on a paper 'The specific heat of mixtures of alcohol and water' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page | 11 June 1868 |
| MS/201 | Thomas Andrews papers | 1836-1877 |
| PT/52/1 | Paper, 'On the constitution and properties of ozone' by Thomas Andrews | [1855] |
| PT/34/5 | Paper, 'On the heat disengaged during metallic substitutions' by Thomas Andrews | [1847] |
| PT/60/7/1 | Manuscript, 'On the volumetric relations of ozone and the action of the electrical discharge on oxygen and other gases' by Thomas Andrews and Peter G [Guthrie] Tait | [1860] |
| RR/6/14 | Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states of matter' by Thomas Andrews | 15 July 1869 |
| RR/1/4 | Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the heat disengaged during metallic substitutions' by Thomas Andrews | 9 February 1848 |
| PT/28/1 | Paper, 'On the thermal changes accompanying basic substitutions' by Thomas Andrews | [1843] |
| PT/60/7/2 | Plate, oxygen vessels, calorimeter, air pump, vacuum, siphon tube, and platinum wires by unknown artist | [1860] |
| RR/3/9 | Referee's report by August Wilhelm von Hofmann, on a paper 'On the constitution and properties of ozone' by Thomas Andrews | 8 October 1855 |
| RR/3/10 | Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the constitution and properties of ozone' by Thomas Andrews | 11 October 1855 |
| AP/39/32 | Paper, 'Note on the density of ozone' by Thomas Andrews and P G [Peter Guthrie] Tait | 1857 |
| PT/60/7 | Paper, 'On the volumetric relations of ozone and the action of the electrical discharge on oxygen and other gases' by Thomas Andrews and Peter G [Guthrie] Tait | [1860] |
| HS/1/344 | Incomplete letter, from Thomas Andrews to Sir John Herschel, dated at Queens College, Belfast | 21 May 1856 |
| HS/1/350 | Letter, from Thomas Andrews to Sir John Herschel, dated at Queens College, Belfast | 11 April 1871 |
| HS/1/349 | Letter, from Thomas Andrews to Sir John Herschel, dated at Queens College, Belfast | 20 February 1871 |
| HS/1/345 | Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Andrews, dated at Collingwood | 24 January 1871 |
| HS/1/348 | Letter, from Thomas Andrews to Sir John Herschel, dated at Queens College, Belfast | 11 February 1871 |
| HS/22/152 | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Andrews, dated at Collingwood | 21 April 1843 |
| HS/23/171 | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Andrews, dated at Collingwood | 12 May 1856 |
| HS/24/346 | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Andrews | 22 February 1871 |
| HS/24/347 | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Andrews, dated at Collingwood | 13 April 1871 |
| HS/1/346 | Letter, from Thomas Andrews to Sir John Herschel, dated at Queens College, Belfast | 31 January 1871 |