Tilden, Sir William

Tilden, Sir William A. Chemical Discovery and Invention in the Twentieth Century. London, 1916. 

D. Fleming,/olm William Draper and the Religion of Science, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1950, p. 205 W. A. Tilden, Sir William Ramsay. Memorials of His Life and Work, Macmillan, London, 1918, p. 137... 

The following analyses of Sir William Tilden give the composition of the occluded gases in several rocks from different parts of the world —... 

Sir WILLIAM A. TILDEN The Elements Speculations as to their Nature and Origin (1910), pp. 108, 109, 133 and 134. With regard to Sir William Tilden s remarks, it... 

Sir William A. Tilden, Famous Chemists, the Men and Their Worle. London and New York, 1921. 

Anon. (1911). Science notes Sir William Tilden on chemistry teaching. Journal of Education 33 167. 

J.C.P. (1928). Obituary notices of fellows deceased Sir William Augustus Tilden, 1842-1926. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 117 i-v. 

From Famous Chemists The Men and Their Work by Sir William A. Tilden. London George Rout-ledge Sons, Ltd. New York E. P. Dutton Go., 1921.]... 

Findlay, in British Chemists (Chem. Soc.), 1947, ii E. E. Fournier d Albe, The Life of Sir William Crookes, London, 1923 Przibram, in Bugge, Das Buch der grossen Chemiker, 1930, ii, 288 Tilden, (i), 260 id., Proc. Roy. Soc., 1920, xcvi, I-IX id.,J. Chem. Soc., 1920, cxvii, 444 (portr.) The Chemical Gazette, or. Journal of Practical Chemistry in all its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts and Manufactures, was edited by William Francis and Henry Croft, late students in the Universities of Berlin and Giessen , in vol. i (November 1842-3), subsequent volumes to vol. xvii (1859) by Francis alone. It was then incorporated in The Chemical News, edited from the first number (10 December 1859) by Crookes until his obituary notice (and portrait) appeared in the issue for ii April, volume cxviii, 1919, after which it began to be edited by J. H. Gardiner. It ceased publication in 1932 (vol. cxlv). 

Sir William Tilden, Professor of Chemistry at what is now Imperial College in London, who had done the work, also tried, with some success, to turn isoprene back into rubber. The methods available at the time (around 1900) to measure molecular weights all indicated that rubber must consist of very large molecules (even if the zealots of the colloid school clung to their own... 

G. Stafford Whitby was a towering figure in rubber science from the earliest days of the 20 century to his death in 1972. He was very precocious and entered The Royal College of Science in London at 16. Upon graduation he continued in the laboratory of Sir William Tilden. In 1910 he was sent to Sumatra to study the production of natural rubber with the Societe Financiere des Caoutchoucs. He learned the rubber business from the ground up and made major contributions to the understanding of the chemical behavior of the raw latex (Fig. 5.4). 

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