Lowry, Thomas Martin, 1874-1936 (physical chemist)
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Biography
Lowry, Thomas Martin (1874-1936), Professor of Physical Chemistry in the University of Cambridge 1920-36. Thomas Martin Lowry, son of a Methodist minister in the West Riding, was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and the Central Technical College, South Kensington. In 1896 he became assistant to H.E. Armstrong (Professor of Chemistry at the College), a post he held for thirteen years until his appointment as head of the chemistry department at Guy's Hospital Medical School. Between 1917 and 1919 he also served as Director of Shell-Filling. He was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Society in 1914. From 1920 until his death he was the first holder of the chair of physical chemistry at Cambridge.
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Thomas Martin Lowry : Scientific correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8678
Scope and Contents
The letters and papers catalogued below mostly originated during Lowry's Cambridge years. They cover a variety of topics, but the largest group relates to Lowry's disagreements with Professors C.K. Ingold and J.F. Thorpe on the subject of mutarotation, concerning which he believed not only that their arguments and conclusions were wrong, but that they had 'grossly misrepresented' his own views. The correspondents found here include many of the most influential chemists and physicists of the...
Dates:
1915-1932
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