Sujet
Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1881. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
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Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1881. Playfair (1818-1898) in the chair as Deputy Speaker of the Commons during a late night session. Playfair studied chemistry at Glasgow under Thomas Graham, and under Liebig at Giessen. Professor of chemistry at Edinburgh University from 1858-1896, he discovered the nitroprusside class of salts. Playfair was appointed chemist to the Geological Survey in 1846 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1848. He was engaged in the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Liberal MP for the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh from 1868-1885, Playfair served as Secretary of State for Science and Art in 1855 and was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1880-1883. He was knighted in 1883 and was created a Baron in 1892. Cartoon in the Fancy Portraits series from Punch. (London, 12 February 1881).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1881
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
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HRM19B63_468
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (3,7Mo) / 29,3cm x 42,7cm / 3461 x 5046 (300dpi)