IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 140
Held at: University College London
Title: Armstrong Papers
Date(s): Created 1929-1930
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 envelope
Name of creator(s): Armstrong | Henry Edward | 1848-1937 | chemist and educationalist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born Lewisham, London, 1848; educated at the Royal College of Chemistry, 1865-1867, University of Leipzig, 1867-1870; lecturer, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1870; Professor of Chemistry, London Institution, 1870; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1876; Professor of Chemistry at the Cowper Street Schools (later Finsbury Technical College), 1879; Professor of Chemistry, Central Technical College (later the City and Guilds College), 1884-1913; President of the Chemical Society, 1893-1895; Davy medal of the Royal Society, 1911; Professor Emeritus, Imperial College, 1913; died, 1937. Publications include: Essays on the Art and Principles of Chemistry, including the first Messel Memorial Lecture (Ernest Benn, London, 1927); Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry Second edition (Longmans & Co, London, 1874); The Teaching of Scientific Method, and other papers on education Second edition (Macmillan & Co, London, 1903).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence, article and reviews relating to the works of August Kekulé.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
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Open.
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Normal copyright restrictions apply.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Originally inserted in the copy of Kekulé's Lehrbuch de Organischen Chemie, 1861-1866, at University College London.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Source: AIM25 description of the Armstrong Papers at Imperial College.
Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Jul 2001