- Henry Bence Jones
Henry Bence Jones (
December 31 ,1813 -April 20 ,1873 ), Englishphysician andchemist , was born at Thorington Hall,Suffolk , the son of an officer in theDragoon guards .He was educated at Harrow and
Trinity College, Cambridge . Subsequently he studied medicine atSt George's Hospital , and chemistry atUniversity College, London . In 1841 he went to Giessen in Germany to work at chemistry with Liebig.Besides becoming a fellow, and afterwards senior censor, of the
Royal College of Physicians , and a fellow of theRoyal Society , he held the post of secretary to theRoyal Institution for many years. In 1846 he was elected physician to St George's hospital. He died in London on the20 April 1873 .Dr Bence Jones was a recognized authority on diseases of the
stomach andkidneys . He wrote, in addition to several scientific books and a number of papers in scientific periodicals, "The Life and Letters of Faraday" (1870).ee also
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=BCUJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA179&dq=Henry+Bence+Jones&as_brr=1#PPA110,M1 Brief biography] from the "Dictionary of National Biography" (1892)
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