Meldola, Raphael

While these developments were noted in Europe and the US, little action was taken outside of Germany to improve industrial research and industrial-academic collaboration. British chemist Raphael Meldola s experience in the English synthetic dye industry... 

FIGURE 19. A banquet to celebrate the anilines. This large and distinguished company of academic and industrial chemists and others is celebrating the jubilee of the discovery of mauve by William Henry Perkin at the Hotel Metropole, London, on 26 luly 1906. William Perkin, Heinrich Caro, Raphael Meldola, Emil Fischer, and Paul Friedlander are among those at the top table. By this time, the dye industry had developed all the major processes for production of aniline and its congeners, and naphthylamines, and aminoanthraquinones. Edelstein Collection... 

Ih., 1879, xii, 2065. Raphael Meldola (London 19 July 1849-16 November 1915), a pupil of Frankland, at first worked in industry and was then professor in the Finsbury Technical College, London. His work was mostly on dyes Raphael Meldola, ed. J. Marchant, London, 1916 Eyre and Rodd, in British Chemists (Chem. Soc.), 1947, 9b-... 

Such clear cut conclusions are invariably supported by the accounts of participants. On the British side these were often meant as warnings of the failure to invest in scientific education and basic research, and revise an inadequate patent system. This was the message of Raphael Meldola s 1886 lecture before the Society of Arts in London in which he advised his audience that a survey of British dye users had revealed that over eighty per cent of the colorants they employed were Made in Germany. ... 

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