Henry Edward (Edward) Schunck
1820–1903
Chemist. Studied chemistry at Berlin University. DPhil, Giessen University, 1841. Worked in his father’s calico-printing works in Rochdale, but within a few years had turned to full-time chemical research. Published papers on plant dyes. Member, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1842–1903; secretary, 1855–60; president four times between 1866 and 1897. FRS 1850
Source
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 3d. ser. 3 (1868), ODNB.
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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