Fyfe, Andrew

At about the same time, Dr. Andrew Fyfe (1792-1861) of Edinburgh detected iodine in several species of Fucus, in a species of conferva, and in the common sponge of the shops, and published a paper on it in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (10S). After serving as assistant to Professor Hope, he gave private lectures on chemistry and pharmacy at Edinburgh. From 1844 until his death in 1861 he occupied die chair of chemistry at die University of Aberdeen (109). 

R 71 W.R. Cullen, P. Andrewes, C. Fyfe, H. Grondey, T. Liao, E. Polishchuk, L. Wang and C. Wang, Solidification/Stabilization of Adamsite and Lewisite in Cement and the Stability of Arylarsenicals in Soil , p. 45... 

Andrew Fyfe (Edinburgh i8 January 1792-31 December 1861), M.D. 1814, F.R.S. 1823, lecturer in chemistry in Edinburgh, professor of medicine and chemistry in Aberdeen (1844-61), analysed the water of the North Polar Sea and made experiments on the occurrence of iodine in sponges, kelp, etc. , on coal gas and oil gas, and a form of Dobereiner s lamp, and on silver phosphate as sensitive material in photography. He analysed a specimen of tutenag or white copper of China , and this led to the European development of the white alloy. 

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