Tait, Peter Guthrie

The need for a theoretical chemistry was felt in institutions outside Germany as well. Writing in 1872, Peter Guthrie Tait argued that the "ideal university" should be a combination of the Scottish and English university systems, "to the exclusion of what is manifestly bad in each." Among other improvements,... 

Quoted in C. G. Knott, Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1911) 248.1 thank S. S. Schweber for this reference. 

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