Thomas Edward Thorpe
1845–1925
Chemist. Junior assistant, chemical department, Owens College, Manchester, 1863. Studied at the University of Heidelberg from 1867; PhD, 1869. Professor of chemistry, Anderson’s University, Glasgow, 1870; Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds, 1874; Normal School of Science (later the Royal College of Science), South Kensington, 1885. A member of the eclipse expedition to Sicily, 1870. Principal chemist of the Inland Revenue laboratory (later the Government Laboratory), 1894–1909. Professor of general chemistry, Imperial College, 1909–12. Knighted, 1909. FRS 1876.
Sources
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 161: 467–76
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.
