- George Fownes
George Fownes, FRS (
14 May 1815 ,London –31 January 1849 ,Brompton ,Kent ) was a Britishchemist . He obtained his PhD atGiesen , inGermany . From 1842 he was chemistry professor at thePharmaceutical Society of Great Britain , and from 1846 at University College, London. He was also secretary of theChemical Society of London . In 1844, he published a chemistry textbook. In 1842, he had been awarded theRoyal Agricultural Society 's prize for his essay "Food of Plants". In 1844, he received the firstActonian Prize (of 100 guineas) for his essay "Chemistry as Exemplifies the Wisdom and Beneficence of God". He was elected a fellow of theRoyal Society in 1845, but that same year resigned from his academic positions due to ill health. For his researches in organic chemistry, he was awarded the Royal Society'sRoyal Medal in 1847. He spent time inBarbados from 1847, in an attempt to treat the pulmonary disease afflicting him, but, on his return to England in 1848, he caught a cold and died at his father's house inBrompton, Kent at the age of 34.ources
*Entry for George Fownes in
Dictionary of National Biography (1903)
* [http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(Surname='fownes') Entry for Fownes] in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 21 April 2008)External links
* [http://www.todayinsci.com/F/Fownes_George/FownesGeorge-Bio.htm George Fownes biography] from "Today In Science History"
* [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tasc/1950/00000006/00000004/art00007 The life and work of George Fownes, F.R.S. (1815–49)] , J. S. Rowe in "Annals of Science" (1850)
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