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Sir Edward Frankland, KCB, FRS, FRSE (18 January 1825 – 9 August 1899) was an English chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence.
Sir Edward Frankland (born Jan. 18, 1825, Churchtown, Lancashire, Eng.—died Aug. 9, 1899, Golaa, Nor.) was an English chemist who was one of the first investigators in the field of structural chemistry. While apprenticed to a druggist, Frankland learned to perform chemical experiments.
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May 14, 2018 · Chemistry. Frankland was the illegitimate son of Peggy frankland, the daughter of a calico printer. After education in seven schools, including Lancaster Grammar School, Frankland was apprenticed by his stepfather, William Helm, to a Lancaster druggist, Stephen Ross.
When, on July 28, 1848, Edward Frankland (Figure 1 ), then a 23-year-old faculty member of Queenwood College in Hampshire, England, filled a thick-walled glass tube with finely granulated zinc and ethyl iodide and then sealed it, he did not realize that he had set up the reaction that would produce the first main-group organometallic compounds, ...
- Dietmar Seyferth
- 2001
Jan 17, 2018 · January 18 is Edward Frankland’s birthday. Frankland was an English chemist who pioneered the idea of valency. He theorized an element could combine with a limited selection of other elements and established the field of structural chemistry.
Jan 18, 2017 · Sir Edward Frankland, an English chemist, was born Jan. 18, 1825. In 1852, Frankland read a paper to the Royal Society of London, in which he proposed the concept of valence (or valency, as the British call it).
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This is the first scientific biography of Edward Frankland, probably the most eminent chemist of nineteenth-century Britain. Frankland discovered the chemical bond and founded the science of organometallic chemistry. He was a leading reformer of chemistry teaching, and the government's close adviser on urban water purity.
