Faradays First Chemistry Teacher

Jane (Haldimand) Marcet (1769-1858) was bom in England and married a prominent Swiss physician and respected amateur chemist Alexander Marcet. Influenced by Humphry Davy s public lectures she tried some experiments and decided to write a book to explain the science  

In venturing to offer to the public, and more particularly to the female sex, an Introduction to Chemistry, the author, herself a woman, conceives that 

FIGURE 283. Humphry Davy s apparatus for measuring the amount of limestone in soil. Sulfuric acid releases one equivalent of CO2 from an equivalent of limestone (CaCOj). The gas fills a balloon, displacing a volume of water that is measured to give the volume of gas generated. (From Davy, Agricultural Chemistry, London, 1813.) 

Ill which tile Elementi of that Science me fnnuluttly ettpliuned and illustrated 

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Richards, Theodore W. (1868-1928). An American chemist born in Germantown, PA. He was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He studied chemistry at Haverford and Harvard, with a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard where he later became Erving Professor of Chemistry. An outstanding experimental chemist, his major interests were atomic weights, thermochemistry, and thermodynamics. He was also a brilliant teacher. He was president of the ACS in 1914, and the recipient of many honorary awards, including the Davy, Faraday, and Gibbs medals. 

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