Thomas Thomson
1773–1852
Chemist. Private teacher of chemistry in Edinburgh, 1800–11. Founded Annals of Philosophy in 1813 and edited the journal until 1821. Lecturer in chemistry, Glasgow University, 1817; regius professor, 1818–52. FRS 1811.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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