Prof. W. H. Perkin, Jun., F.R.S
| Autor: | Henry E. Armstrong |
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| Rok vydání: | 1929 |
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| Zdroj: | Nature. 124:623-627 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 0028-0836 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/124623a0 |
| Popis: | THE death of William Henry Perkin, junior, on Sept. 17, is both a tragedy and a catastrophe in chemistry. The loss is irreparable: men of his type are not being made to-day; they cannot be under the prevailing system. He is taken from us, not after he had accomplished his task, but in the fullness of his working powers, as ardent as ever in his enthusiasm for the laboratory bench as the fons et origo of all chemical discovery. There have been disturbing signs of late years that he was losing some of his physical vigour. At the time of the Pedler lecture, in May last, he admitted that he felt ill but no organic lesion was discovered and his death has not been assigned to any definite cause. The beginning was severe stomach derangement. |
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