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In the same year a group of Manchester residents began a subscription campaign for the purpose of erecting a statue of Dalton. The committee in charge of the project commissioned Francis Chantry, at the time the best-known portrait sculptor in England, to carry out the project. Chantry took twice as long to complete the work as he had promised, but eventually got it done. When the statue was finally delivered in 1838, it was installed in the entrance hall of the Royal Manchester Institution. 

This close relationship between maker and customer was fostered in Manchester by a relatively open scientific community. Joule and Dancer undoubtedly met socially at the Lit and Phil as well as at lectures or conversaziones at the Royal Manchester Institution. Dancer also made several of the instruments Joule required for the long series of experiments on atomic volume he carried out in conjunction with Lyon Playfair. (46) Both Playfair and Dancer were close friends of John Mercer, (47) a manufacturing chemist from Oakenshaw, Lancashire, who was responsible for inventing the process of treating cotton with strong alkali to ensure a good uptake of dye, which continues to bear his name. 

Royal Manchester Institution Archives, Letter from J.P. Joule to Manchester Great Exhibition Committee, 30th April, 1850. Manchester Central Reference Library, M6/3/11/9. 

G. N. Burkhardt, "The School of Chemistry in the University of Manchester," Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (September 1954) 448460. This is part of the Schools of Chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland Series (XIII). On 450. 

On October 21, 1803, Dalton made before the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, of which he was secretary, his first public announcement of the relative weights of atoms. It excited the attention of some natural philosophers He was invited by the Royal Institution of London to lecture to a large and distinguished audience. 

The most apparent link is between MHSG and the University of Manchester nearly all MHSG graduates who became Associates or Fellows of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and/or... 

Burkhardt, G. N. (1954). Schools of chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland-XIII The University of Manchester (Faculty of Science). Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry 78 448 60. 

In 1907 he returned to England to become the Langworthy professor of physics at the University of Manchester, and in 1919 became the Cavendish professor of physics at Cambridge and chairman of the advisory council, H. M. Government, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research professor of natural philosophy, Royal Institution, London and director of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge. 

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X-RAYS AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE. By lSfr William Bragg, K.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., Director of the Royal Institution, and W. L. Bragg, F.R.S., Langworthy Professor of Physics, University of Manchester. Fifth Edition, Revised. 336 pp. Illustrated. 21s.net. 

George E. Davis (shown in Figure 1) was bom at Eton in 1850 and studied chemistry first at Slough Mechanics Institute and later at the Royal School of Mines (now part of Imperial College). His formal studies ended in 1870 when he joined Messrs Bealey s Bleach Works at Manchester as Works Chemist. He moved about fairly often in the next 10 years gaining experience in the chemical industry, mostly in Northwest England. Then in 1880 he became a consultant with an office in Manchester. 

A. Simperler (a), A. Philippou (b), D.-P. Luigi (b), R.G. Bell (a) and M.W. Anderson (b) a The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, United Kingdom, rob ri.ac.uk b UMIST Centre for Microporous Materials, Manchester, United Kingdom... 

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Gerald Beresford Whitham gained his BSc in 1948, his MSc in 1949, and his PhD degree in 1953 from Manchester University, Manchester UK, where he stayed as Lecturer imtil 1956. He was then associate professor at the New York University imtil 1959. He spent the two next years as professor of applied mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Teehnology MIT, Cambridge MA, joining in 1961 the California Institute of Teehnology Caltech, Pasadena CA, first as professor of aeronautics and mathematics, from 1967 as professor of applied mathematics. Whitham was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Seienee in 1959, of the Royal Society, London UK in 1965, and was awarded the Wiener Prize in applied mathematics in 1980. 

The University of Manchester, Hope Hospital Clinical Academic Group, Manchester and Salford Royal Hospitals National Health Services Trust, Salford, UK Gail D. Baura, PhD Cec/c Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California, USA... 

The first professor of chemistry in the Royal Institution was Thomas Garnett (Casterton, Westmorland, 1766-London, 28 June 1802), a pupil of Black, M.D. Edinburgh 1788, who lectured in Manchester and other places, practised in Harrogate (where he analysed the waters) and in 1798 became professor in the Anderson s College in Glasgow, where his lectures were very successful. On the death of his wife in childbirth in 1798 his spirit was broken, and at the Royal Institution in 1799 he was a failure. He died of typhus contracted in the course of his duties at Marylebone Dispensary. Garnett edited the first volume of a journal and published books on mineral waters, one on chemistry, and on zoology (posthumous). ... 

Two unpublished lectures to the Manchester Philosophical Society on A Review and Illustration of some Principles in Mr. Dalton s course of lectures on Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in January, 1804 , and On the Elements of Chemicad Philosophy , given in 1804,2 were probably to fill up vacant programmes. Dalton probably gave the first fairly complete account of his chemical atomic theory in his first lecture at the Royal Institution on 22 December 1803. There is an entry in his notebook for that date ... 

Among the many papers read by Dalton to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, but not all published, are those on winds (1802), a review of his lectures to the Royal Institution (1804), on the elements of chemical philosophy (August 1804), on heat (October 1804), respiration and animal heat (March 1806), on the specific heat of bodies and of gases (1808), respiration (1808), compounds of sulphur and sulphuric acid (1809), oxymuriate of lime (1812), phosphoric acid and phosphates (1813), on many compounds of metals (1813 on), compounds of azote and oxygen (1816), alum (1820), remarks on the notation of Berzelius (1830), arseniates and phosphater... 

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