Machado, Achilles

Alberto de Aguiar, Achilles Machado, Severiano Monteiro and Charles Lepierre supported unconditionally the idea but could not attend the meeting. 

The president was Ferreira da Silva Achilles Machado and Alvaro Basto became vice-presidents Mastbaum was first secretary Cardoso Pereira was second secretary Armando Seabra became the treasurer Carlos von Bonhorst, Cesar Lima Alves and Pereira Salgado were voting members. 

Reading the history of chemistry at the Lisbon Polytechnic School, of which he was one of the authors, we find that, in 1897, a comprehensive program was published that contained a greater focus on modem theoretical notions than had previously been the case. It included thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium, ionization, facts explained by Arrhenius s theory, Mendeleev s classification, and so on. This program was published just as Achilles Machado became a professor. ... 

The development of science in the secondary school system had evolved, particularly after the 1850s. The subject of the periodic classification appears explicitly in the official secondary programs only much later, in the 1940s. Nevertheless, during the period prior to its official publication, some university professors were involved in the publication of textbooks for secondary education, as in the case of Achilles Machado, whose books were used either as stand-alone textbooks, or with others, for several decades. As far as we have been able to establish, the first published version of the periodic classification at this level was in 1906 in one of Achilles Machado s textbooks. 

Achilles Machado and Antonio Pereira Forjaz, Escola Politecnica de Lisboa—As cadei-ras de Quimica e os sens Professores [Lisbon Polytechnic School—the Chemistry courses and their professors] (Lisboa Faculdade de CiSncias de Lisboa, 1937), 34. 

Virgilio Machado and Achilles Machado, Chimica Geral e Analyse Chimica, Volume I Metalloides (Lisboa Por ordem e na Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1892). 

Achilles Machado, Elementos de Chimica -IV e V Partes, Ensino Secundirio Official (Lisboa Imprensa de Libanio da Silva, 1906), 95-98. 

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