Smith, Angus

In 1863, the British Parliament passed the Alkali Act, which forced the LeBlanc factories to reclaim 95 percent of the hydrochloric acid gas that they produced. Angus Smith, the Alkali Inspector assigned to enforce the law, demonstrated that industrial towns suffered from higher sulfate levels than did the countryside. When Angus Smith also coined the term acid rain, air pollution became a public issue. By the 1870s, Leblanc factories emitted less than 0.1 percent of the hydrochloric acid gas they produced the rest was reclaimed and sold. 

Richard Hawes. The Control of Alkali Pollution in St. Helens, 1862-1890. Environment and History. 1 (June 1995) 159-171. Source for Leblanc town pollution failure of regulation and court suits and Angus Smith. 

The term acid rain was hrst coined in 1872 by the English chemist Robert Angus Smith (1817-84). Smith studied the composition of rain in the region around Manchester, England, and observed... 

Remarkably, in 1872, a century before it became an international issue, a treatise on acid rain was published in England by Robert Angus Smith. Twenty years earlier, he had analyzed rain near Manchester and noted three types of areas as one moved from the city to the surrounding countryside ... 

Dr, Angus Smith of Manchester kiudly rendered his valuable aid during the progress of this article, and for which the Editor is indebted to him,... 

This term is used almost exclusively in connection with the effect of airborne pollutants on the natural health of forests and lakes. The term was coined by Angus Smith several years ago, when he referred to the effect of industrial emissions on precipitation over the British midlands. Unfortunately, the term docs not fully or accurately describe what may be occurring in certain forests and lakes. 

Ortho photocycloaddition was first reported in a U.S. patent [1] dated September 3, 1957. Irradiation of benzonitrile in the presence of various alkenes resulted in the formation of derivatives of l-cyanobicyclo[4.2.0]octa-2,4-diene. The first ortho photocycloaddition to benzene was reported in 1959 by Angus and Bryce-Smith [2], who discovered that benzene and maleic anhydride react to form a stable adduct at 60°C under the influence of ultraviolet radiation. This 1 2 adduct was formed from one molecule of benzene and two molecules of maleic anhydride. Two years later, Bryce-Smith and Lodge [3] found that acetylenes could also be photoadded to benzene. The isolated products were cyclooctatetraenes, formed by ring opening of the primarily formed bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-2,4,7-trienes. Since those early years, hundreds of examples of ortho photocycloadditions of alkenes to the benzene ring and many mechanistic investigations have been reported and they will be discussed in this chapter. 

Angus und Bryce-Smith erhielten durch direkte UV-BestraMung von Maleinsaureanhydrid in Benzol ein 2 1-Addukt, fiir das sie die Struktur 122 vorschlugen (6, 7, 37). 

Angus, H. J. F., J. Me. O. Blair, and D. Bryce-Smith Liquid-phase photolysis. III. Isomerisation of benzene and some benzene derivatives to fulvenes. J. chem. Soc. [London] 1960, 2003. 

See for example Angus, H.J.F. and Bryce-Smith, D. (1960) Liquid phase photolysis. IV. A stable adduct of benzene and maleic anhydride. Journal of the Chemical Society, 4791-4795. 

Cameron, P.J., Rogers, M., Oman, J., May, S.G., Lunt, D.K., Smith, S.B. 1994. Stearoyl coenzyme A desaturase enzyme activity and mRNA levels are not different in subcutaneous adipose tissue from Angus and American Wagyu steers. J. Anim. Sci. 72, 2624-2628. 

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