Alexander Pedler
1849–1918
Chemist. Chemical assistant at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1867. Member of the eclipse expedition to Sicily, 1870. Professor of chemistry, Presidency College of Bengal, 1873–96; principal, 1896–1904. Helped establish the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. FRS 1892. Knighted, 1906.
Sources
Nature 2 (1870): 409–10
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Bibliography
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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