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Hope's Apparatus Thomas Charles Hope (1766-1844) was the Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University from 1795-1843. In 1805 he published a paper "Experiments and Observations upon the Contraction of Water by Heat at Low Temperatures". In it he showed that water has its maximum density at about 4°C, a fact well known to fish who congregate at the bottom of ponds in freezing weather. The apparatus at the left is at Kenyon College, and at the right is an example of Hope's apparatus at the University of Cincinnati.
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Thomas Charles Hope
Thomas Charles Hope FRSE FRS PRCPE FFPSG(21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a Scottish physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium,[2][3] and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at 4 °C (39 °F).[2]
Thomas Charles Hope
Thomas Charles Hope, Portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn[1]
Born21 July 1766
Edinburgh
Died13 June 1844(aged 77)
Edinburgh
NationalityScottishAlma materUniversity of Edinburgh
University of ParisKnown forMaximum density of water (Hope's experiment)
Discovery of strontiumScientific careerFieldsChemistry, medicineInstitutionsLecturer in chemistry, University of Glasgow
Professor of medicine and chemistry, University of Edinburgh
President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1815-1819)ThesisTentamen inaugurale, quaedam de plantarum motibus et vita complectens (1787)Doctoral advisorJoseph Black
Bust of Thomas Charles Hope by Sir John Steell, Old College, University of Edinburgh
31 Moray Place, Edinburgh
The Hope grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
In 1815 Hope was elected as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh(1815–19), and as vice-president of Royal Society of Edinburgh (1823–33) during the presidencies of Walter Scott and Thomas Makdougall Brisbane.
He founded a chemistry prize at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
Charles Darwin was one of Hope's students, and Darwin viewed his chemistry lectures as highlights in his otherwise largely dull education at the University.
Thomas Charles Hope FRSE FRS PRCPE FFPSG(21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a Scottish physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium,[2][3] and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at 4 °C (39 °F).[2]
Thomas Charles Hope
Thomas Charles Hope, Portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn[1]
Born21 July 1766
Edinburgh
Died13 June 1844(aged 77)
Edinburgh
NationalityScottishAlma materUniversity of Edinburgh
University of ParisKnown forMaximum density of water (Hope's experiment)
Discovery of strontiumScientific careerFieldsChemistry, medicineInstitutionsLecturer in chemistry, University of Glasgow
Professor of medicine and chemistry, University of Edinburgh
President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1815-1819)ThesisTentamen inaugurale, quaedam de plantarum motibus et vita complectens (1787)Doctoral advisorJoseph Black
Bust of Thomas Charles Hope by Sir John Steell, Old College, University of Edinburgh
31 Moray Place, Edinburgh
The Hope grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
In 1815 Hope was elected as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh(1815–19), and as vice-president of Royal Society of Edinburgh (1823–33) during the presidencies of Walter Scott and Thomas Makdougall Brisbane.
He founded a chemistry prize at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
Charles Darwin was one of Hope's students, and Darwin viewed his chemistry lectures as highlights in his otherwise largely dull education at the University.
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