Spottiswoode, William

Thudichum, J. L. W. Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government BoardNew Series III Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode London, 1874, pp 113-247. 

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Printed in Great Britain at The Spottiswoode Ballantyne Press by William Clowes Sons Limited, London, Colchester and Beccles... 

It is thus significant that on November 30,1882, Britain s premier scientific society, the Royal Society, awarded the Davy Medal jointly to Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer, not wishing to indicate sole primacy of discovery of the periodic law. The president (mathematician William Spottiswoode) spoke of how the labors of Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer had extended our knowledge of the relations between the atomic weights of the elements and their respective chemical and physical properties, and atomic volume curves (Fig. 4.3). ... 

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