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| | History of the Department of Chemistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Henry Roscoe, Professor of Chemistry from 1857 to 1886, built the first ever practical chemistry laboratory in Britain and with Roscoe's support, his assistant, Carl Schörlemmer, was appointed to Britain's first chair of Organic Chemistry in 1874. |
 | | Arthur Harden (1929), Walter Howarth (1937), Robert Robinson (1947), Alexander Todd (1957), Melvin Calvin (1961), John Charles Polanyi (1986), and Michael Smith (1993), past students, research fellows and/or staff members of this Department, were all awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (date in brackets). |
 | | Henry Roscoe believed that students should be given "a careful and complete general training". |
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