William Henry (chemist)
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William Henry Template:Post-nominals (12 December 1774Template:Snd2 September 1836) was an English chemist. He was the son of Thomas Henry and was born in Manchester England.<ref name=ODNB>Template:Cite ODNB</ref><ref>The Book of Manchester and Salford; for the British Medical Association. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 34-35</ref> He developed what is known today as Henry's Law.
Life
William Henry was apprenticed to Thomas Percival and later worked with John Ferriar & John Huit at the Manchesters Infirmary.Template:Citation needed He began to study medicine at University of Edinburgh in 1795, taking his medical in 1807, but ill-healthTemplate:Efn interrupted his practice as a physician, and he devoted his time mainly to chemical research, especially with regard to gases. One of his best-known papers (published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1803) describes experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> His results are known today as Henry's law. His other papers deal with gas-analysis, fire-damp, illuminating gas, the composition of hydrochloric acid and of ammonia, urinary and other morbid concretions, and the disinfecting powers of heat. His Elements of Experimental Chemistry (1799) enjoyed considerable vogue in its day,<ref>Henry's manual on chemistry and Parkes's manual on chemistry are mentioned by Charles Darwin as books that he studied before attending Cambridge. Template:Cite book</ref> going through eleven editions in 30 years.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1809, having been awarded their prestigious Copley Medal in 1808.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and elected to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 2.April 1796.<ref>{ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/74442#page/32/mode/1up </ref>
He shot himself in his private chapel at Pendlebury, near Manchester, in 1836.<ref name=ODNB/>
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Further reading
- Elwood, Willis J. & Tuxford, A. Felicité (eds.) (1984) Some Manchester Doctors: a biographical collection to mark the 150th anniversary of the Manchester Medical Society, 1834-1984. Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Henry, William Charles (1837) A Biographical Account of the late Dr Henry. Manchester: F. Looney (Dr William Charles Henry, also known as Dr Charles Henry, was a son of William Henry; he donated the first collection of scientific books to the Owens College Library in 1851.)
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