Charles Baskerville

Charles Baskerville
Born	June 18, 1870(1870-06-18) Noxubee County, United States
Died	January 28, 1922(1922-01-28) (aged 51)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Mississippi
Known for	claimed discovery of carolinium and berzelium

Charles Baskerville was an American chemist. He announced the discovery of two new elements which claimed to have separated from thorium. Carolinium and berzelium later were identified to be identical with thorium.^[1]

Life

Baskerville was born June 6, 1870, in Noxubee County, Mississippi. He studied chemistry at the University of Mississippi in 1886 and 1887 and graduated at from the University of Virginia. Later he studied at the Vanderbilt University, the University of Berlin and the University of North Carolina, where he received his B.S. degree in 1892 and Ph.D. in 1894. He became professor at the University of North Carolina and moved to the College of the City of New York in 1904, where he stayed until his death in 1922. He was survived by his wife, son and daughter.^[2]

Over his career, Baskerville published 190 papers, 8 books, and 16 patents. He was one of the most constant attendants on the meetings of the American Chemical Society, also a Fellow of the London Chemical Society, member of the Society of Chemical Industry, of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Electrochemical Society, the Washington and New York Academies of Science, the Franklin Institute, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[2]

References

1. ^ Baskerville, Charles (1904). "Carolinium, Berzelium, Thorium". Journal of the American Chemical Society 26: 922. doi:10.1021/ja01998a003. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Edgar F. Smith, W. R. Dunstan, B. A. Keen and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1923). "Obituary notices: Charles Baskerville, 1870–1922; Alexander Crum Brown, 1838–1922; Charles Mann Luxmoore, 1857–1922; Edward Williams Morley, 1838–1923; William Thomson, 1851–1923". J. Chem. Soc., Trans. 123: 3421–3441. doi:10.1039/CT9232303421. 

External links

• Baskerville dies of Pneumonia; Director at City College Had Done Notable Research Work in Industrial Chemistry January 30, 1922, Monday
• The (very brief) rise and fall of carolinium, The Cotton Boll Conspiracy, March 30, 2011

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Name	Baskerville, Charles
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Date of birth	June 18, 1870
Place of birth	Noxubee County, United States
Date of death	January 28, 1922
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