Clifton College

In 1930, the student Charles Coulson wrote out as the first lines of his chemistry exercise book at Clifton College in Bristol, "Physics is Chemistry. Chemistry is Physics. Laws of Conservation of energy and matter are FUND AMENT AL LAWS. Lavoisier was the first to realize this clearly." 1 Almost sixty years later, the editors of the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry announced that they had entertained the suggestion that "Chemical Physics" be added to the title of the journal but rejected it, even while recognizing, they said, that the difference between the practice of physical chemistry and chemical physics is "small indeed."2... 

William Ashwell Shenstone (Wells, Norfolk, i December 1850-Mullion, Cornwall, 3 February 1908) studied at the Pharmaceutical Society and (1880) became Science Master at Clifton College. Victor Herbert Veley (Chelmsford, 10 February 1856-London, 20 August 1933) became assistant professor of chemistry in Oxford (1879-1905). He investigated the decomposition of ammonium nitrate and nitrite, the action of nitric acid on metals, the initial acceleration of chemical change, the affinity constants of bases as determined by methyl orange, the affinities of alkaloids, and the reactions of acids and methyl orange. 

Revue Scient., 1884, viii, 97 1885, ix, 801 for a manuscript at Clifton College, see Holmyard, Makers of Chemistry, Oxford, 1931, 189. 

Coulson attended Clifton College in Bristol where his "wise and cunning mathematics master" H. C. Beaven, a Balliol graduate, invited him to a lecture at the University of Bristol by Selig Brodetsky, a rather well-known applied mathematician. Years later, Coulson remembered how flattered he was to be asked to a lecture at the university and also how impressed he was by what he heard. The speaker explained how a specific root-squaring process could be used to find the roots of a polynomial equation. The event marked him for life. 

Figure 4.4 Clifton College laboratory c. 1890, with top left a periodic table and top right a valency list (see the close-up photo of the table). Courtesy of Clifton College archives. 

Clifton College laboratory c. 1890, with top left a periodic table and... 

Helen Kemp Archbold,84 born in 1899, was educated at Clifton High School for Girls, Bristol, and entered Bedford College in 1917. Graduating in 1921, she obtained one of the places reserved for women in Jocelyn Thorpe s organic chemistry... 

Surawicz B, Uhley H, Borun R, Laks M, Crevasse L, Rosen K, Nelson W, Mandel W, Lawrence P, Jackson L, Flowers N, Clifton J, Greenfield J Jr, De Medina FO. The quest for optimal electrocardiography. Task Force 1 standardization of terminology and interpretation. Bethesda Conference co-sponsored by the American College of Cardiology and Health Resources Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Task Force 1. Standardization of terminology and interpretation. Am J Cardiol 1978 41 130-144. 

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