Authorised form of name | Hope; Thomas Charles (1766 - 1844); chemist |
Dates | 1766 - 1844 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Date of birth | 21 July 1766 |
Place of death | Edinburgh |
Date of death | 13 June 1844 |
Research field | Chemistry |
Activity | Education: MD (1787, Edinburgh) Career: Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow (1787); resigned upon appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Glasgow (1789); Joint Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh, with Joseph Black (1795); sole Professor of Chemistry upon Black's death (1799); discovered strontium (1791/2); resigned professorship (1843)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 31/05/1810 |
Relationships | Third son of John Hope (FRS 1767) |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1844 No 60 pp 525-526 |
Code | NA3547 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
MS/710/54 | Letter from Thomas Charles Hope, Buchanan House, Stirlingshire, to Robert Were Fox | 8 October 1830 |
IM/002244 | Hope, Thomas Charles | nd |
EC/1810/03 | Hope, Thomas Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |