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Authorised form of nameBrodie; Sir; Benjamin Collins (1817 - 1880)
Dates1817 - 1880
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSackville Street, Piccadilly, London, England
Date of birth05 February 1817
Place of deathTorquay
Date of death24 November 1880
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School; Balliol College, Oxford. BA (1838)
Career:
Took up chemistry; Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, Oxford (1865)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1849
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1850
RelationshipsSon of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (FRS 1810) and his wife Anne, daughter of Mr Sergeant Sellon, lawyer; married (11 April 1848) Philothea Margaret, daughter of John Vincent Thompson, Sergeant-at-law (died 1882); succeeded to his father's title (1862)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
References:
William R Le Fanu, 'Sir Benjamin Brodie, FRS (1783-1862)' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 42-52, plate
N G Coley, 'The Animal Chemistry Club; Assistant Society to the Royal Society' in NR 1967 vol 22 pp 173-185
V Gold, 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Appointment of J F Daniell, FRS, as Professor of Chemistry at King's College London' in NR 1973-4 vol 28 pp 25-29
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27865135
CodeNA8148
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1849/05Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/769/20Letter from Benjamin Collins Brodie, Augusta House, Worthing, to Walter White11 December 1862
MS/743/1/26Testimonial by Benjamin Collins Brodie on behalf of John Hall Gladstone19 July 1857
CMB/42/2/3Minutes, meeting of the Royal Medal Committee in Physiology6 April 1833
CMB/42/2/6Minutes, meeting of the Royal Medal Committee in Physiology6 May 1933
IM/Maull/000579Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collinsnd
RR/4/63Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'On the oxidation of glycol, and on some salts of glyoxylic acid' by Heinrich Debus5 May 1859
RR/4/23Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on a paper 'On the atomic weight of graphite' by Benjamin Collins Brodie30 May 1859
PT/69/3Paper, 'The peroxides of the radicals of the organic acids' by Sir B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie[1863]
RR/7/155Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry on the action of electricity on gases. - I. On the action of electricity on oxygen' by Benjamin Collins Brodie6 July 1872
RR/7/290Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the action of electricity on gases. Part II - On the electric decomposition of carbonic-acid gas' by Benjamin Collins Brodie13 February 1874
RR/7/156Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry on the action of electricity on gases. - I. On the action of electricity on oxygen' by Benjamin Collins Brodie10 October 1872
RR/3/14Referee's report by Benjamin Collings Brodie, on a paper 'On the formation and some of the properties of cyanide' by Reverend John Barlow25 July 1855
RR/2/76Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper [attributed] 'Supplementary observations on the diffusion of liquids' by Thomas Graham17 June [no year given]
RR/4/117Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'On liquid transpiration in relation to chemical composition' by Thomas Graham15 September 1861
MS/426/434Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to W Wyon Esq19 November 1850
MS/426/431Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to on C B [Charles Beaumont] Phipps15 November 1850
IM/000582Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collinsnd
RR/5/34Referee's report by John Stenhouse, on a paper 'On the peroxides of the radicals of the organic acids' by Benjamin Collins Brodie13 July 1863
PT/35/6Paper, 'On the chemical nature of wax. Part III' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie[1848]
PT/34/9iPaper, 'On the chemical nature of a wax from China. Part II' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie[1848]
PT/39/9/2Plate, flask, glass tube, and drying tube of potash by Benjamin Collins Brodie6 June 1850
PT/44/7Paper, 'On a new series of organic bodies containing metals' by Dr E [Edward] Frankland[1852]
PT/39/9Paper, 'On the condition of certain elements at the moment of chemical change' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie6 June 1850
PT/39/9/1Manuscript, 'On the condition of certain elements at the moment of chemical change' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie6 June 1850
RR/2/176Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'On some of the products of the decomposition of nitrotoluylic acid' by Henry Minchin Noad1 March 1854
RR/4/103Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'Researches on organo-metallic bodies - Fourth memoir' by Edward Frankland12 April 1859
RR/5/33Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the peroxides of the radicals of the organic acids' by Benjamin Collins Brodie10 July 1863
PT/67/1Paper, 'On the oxidation and disoxidation effected by the alkaline peroxides' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie18 June 1862
RR/6/30Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'The calculus of chemical operations being a method for the investigation, by means of symbols, of the laws of the distribution of weight in chemical change. — Part I. On the construction of chemical symbols' by Benjamin Collins Brodie23 October 1866
RR/7/289Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'On the action of electricity on gases. Part II - On the electric decomposition of carbonic-acid gas' by Benjamin Collins Brodie5 January 1874
RR/5/35Referee's report by George Bowdler Buckton, on a paper 'On the oxidation and disoxidation effected by the alkaline peroxides' by Benjamin Collins Brodie18 October 1862
MC/5/38Letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, Secretary of the Chemical Society, 5 Cavendish Square, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]20 April 1852
MC/5/269Letter from Alexr [Alexander] Crichton, The Grove near Sevenoaks, to Charles Rd [Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]15 December 1856
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
PT/34/9Paper, 'An investigation on the chemical nature of wax. Part I' by B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie23 February 1848
MC/7/33Letter from Charles Hawkins, 22 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society16 March 1864
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
MC/9/515Letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, Brockham Warren, Reigate, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]9 March 1873
MC/9/516Letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, Brockham Warren, Reigate, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]12 March 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/10/395Letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, Brockham Warren, Reigate, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]17 May 1876
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/11/189Letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, Hotel d'Italie, La Spezzia, Italy, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]21 March 1878
MC/11/166Letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, Hotel de Londres, San Remo, Italy, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society3 February 1878
AP/36/5Paper, 'Note on the melting point and transformations of sulphur' by Benjamin Collins Brodie1854
RR/4/29Referee reports by Alexander William Williamson, on three papers 'On the isolation of the organo-metals, mercuric, stannic, and plumbic ethyls; and observations on some of their derivatives - Second memoir' by George Bowdler Buckton; 'Researches on organo-metallic bodies - Fourth memoir' by Edward Frankland; 'On the atomic weight of graphite' by Benjamin Collins Brodie12 July 1859
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
AP/40/21Paper, 'Some remarks on the physiological action of the Tanghinia venenifera' by A [Albert von] Kölliker and E Pelikan1858
AP/42/10Unpublished paper, 'On the behaviour of the aldehydes with acids' by A [Anton] Geuther and R Cartmell1859
RR/2/38Letter from Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'Further experiments on light' by Henry Lord Brougham to The Royal Society23 November 1853
RR/5/73Referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on two papers, 'On the oxidation and disoxidation effected by the alkaline peroxides' by Benjamin Collins Brodie and 'On the law of expansion of superheated steam' by William Fairbairn22 October 1862
RR/2/34Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the condition of certain elements at the moment of chemical change' by Benjamin Collins Brodie27 July 1850
RR/2/119Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'On the dissolution of urinary calculi in dilute saline fluids, at the temperature of the body, by the aid of electricity' by Henry Bence Jones3 February 1853
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