Frederick Guthrie
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| Born | 15 October 1833 Bayswater, London |
| Died | 21 October 1886 (aged 53) London |
| Academic advisors | Augustus De Morgan |
Prof Frederick Guthrie FRS FRSE (15 October 1833 – 21 October 1886) was a British physicist and chemist and academic author.
He was the son of Alexander Guthrie, a London tradesman and the younger brother of mathematician Francis Guthrie. With William Fletcher Barrett he jointly founded the Physical Society of London (now the Institute of Physics) in 1874 and was president of the society from 1884 till 1886. He believed that science should be based on experimentation rather than discussion.
His academic career started at University College, London, where he studied for three years, he was devoted to the studying chemistry, under Thomas Graham and Alexander William Williamson, and also studied mathematics under Augustus De Morgan. In 1852, he submitted his brother's observations to De Morgan.
In 1854 Guthrie went to Heidelberg studying under Robert Bunsen and then in 1855 obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Marburg under Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe.
In 1856 he joined Edward Frankland, Professor of Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. In 1859 he went to Edinburgh University.
Guthrie was the first to report on the effects of mustard gas. In 1860, he described combining ethylene with sulfur dichloride and observations of some of the physiological effects it had on him.
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