
	Where results make sense

Topic: William Henry Perkin

Related Topics

Mauveine

Tulsa

1890s

In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	William Perkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Henry Perkin was born in East End of London, the youngest of seven children.
		William Perkin continued active research in organic chemistry for the rest of his life.
		The Perkin Medal was established in 1906 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of mauveine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Henry_Perkin (1110 words)

	Sir William Henry Perkin - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR WILLIAM HENRY PERKIN (1838-1907), English chemist, was born in London on the 12th of March 1838.
		In this attempt he was unsuccessful, but the observations he made in the course of his experiments induced him, early in 1856, to try the effect of treating aniline sulphate with bichromate of potash.
		Perkin also had a large share in the introduction of artificial alizarin, the red dye of the madder root.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_William_Henry_Perkin (579 words)

	C&EN: BOOKS - THE FORGOTTEN CHEMIST WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
		William Henry Perkin, a 19th-century English chemist, serendipitously discovered the synthetic dye mauveine, also known as Perkin's mauve or aniline purple, while carrying out research on coal-tar extracts in a laboratory he had set up in his family home in London.
		In this reaction, an aromatic aldehyde is condensed with the anhydride of an aliphatic acid in the presence of a sodium salt to yield an arylpropenoic acid.
		Perkin used the method to synthesize cinnamic acid (3-phenylpropenoic acid) by condensing benzaldehyde with acetic anhydride in the presence of sodium acetate.
	swampfox.fmarion.edu /web/chem/aclabo/cen/cen_7201_mauve.htm (1873 words)

	150th anniversary of the discovery of mauve
		Perkin carried out research on coal-tar extracts at his home in East London during the Easter break and it was on 23 March 1856 that he made the discovery that aniline could be partly transformed into a crude mixture that when extracted with alcohol, gave an intense purple colour.
		Perkin went on to study the ability of organic compounds to rotate polarized light and found the syntheses for coumarin, one of the first synthetic perfumes, and cinnamic acid, which became known as the Perkin Reaction.
		In 1906, Perkin was presented with the Perkin Medal by the American section of the London-based Society of Chemical Industry at a gala celebration in New York which was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the coal-tar dye industry.
	www.rsc.org /AboutUs/News/Perkin.asp (502 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), the son of a builder, showed a keen interest in chemistry from an early age and enrolled at the Royal College of Chemistry in 1853 where he attended the lectures of the German chemist AW Hofmann (1818-92), renowned for his research and teaching abilities.
		Perkin undertook the oxidation at home, having in his enthusiasm for research equipped part of a room in his father's house for this purpose soon after beginning his studies under Hofmann.
		In 1869 Perkin devised two new methods which allowed the economic manufacture of alizarin, the natural colouring matter of madder, the prime red dye of the period, the synthesis of which had been reported by Graebe and Liebermann in 1868 but by a process too expensive to be of commercial interest.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122301 (1003 words)

	Mauve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chemist William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting to create artificial quinine.
		Perkin was so successful in recommending his discovery to the dyestuffs industry that his biography by Simon Garfield is titled Mauve (2001).
		The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Georgian "Mauve Decade," because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauve (553 words)

	BookRags: William Henry Perkin Biography
		William Perkin is considered to be the father of the synthetic dye and perfume industries.
		Perkin was born in London, England, and as a child attended the City of London School.
		Perkin's further experimentation led to his discovery of a method for changing the structure of organic compounds on a molecular level.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-henry-perkin-woc (586 words)

	Chandler Chemical Museum > W. H. Perkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His aptitude for the subject was noted by Thomas Hall, a student of August Wilhelm Hofmann at the City of London School, and the former arranged for Perkin to attend classes at the age of fifteen.
		It only took about a year for Perkin to be rewarded with an independent research project, the typical pedagogical methodology as introduced to the school by Hofman.
		Prior to Perkin’s development of the batch operations for the multi-step synthesis of Mauve (aniline purple dyestuff), dyes were taken from natural sources such as mollusks, guano, and Madder root.
	www.mcah.columbia.edu /chandler_museum/perkin.html (329 words)

	SDC Perkin 150th anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Perkin’s recognition of the potential of mauve as a dye, coupled with his iron determination to commercialise it, was the spark that launched the modern synthetic chemical industry.
		Nowadays, Perkin is commemorated in a number of ways by several bodies involved in the chemical industry, including the Society with its Perkin House headquarters and its prestigious Perkin Medal.
		Supported by the RSC and the SCI, along with the Dyers’ Company, a number of other events to celebrate the anniversary of Perkin’s discovery are planned – from the special SDC Perkin Innovation Award to the culmination of celebrations at the SDC Colour Conference on 13 October 2006 in Belfast.
	www.sdc.org.uk /perkin.htm (461 words)

	Society of Chemical Industry: SCI Honours
		Perkin was born in England and entered the Royal College of Science at 15.
		The Perkin Medal was established to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of mauvene.
		Perkin was a founding Member of SCI and this Medal was first presented in New York to Perkin himself.
	www.soci.org /SCI/awards/awardsbook/award.jsp?awardID=AW31 (359 words)

	Today in Technology History - Mar 12
		On March 12, 1838, William Henry Perkin was born.
		Perkin was so excited by chemical research that he built a laboratory in his father's house to continue experimenting when school was out of session.
		Perkin patented his dye (after some legal investigation into whether someone so young could obtain a patent) and started a company to produce it in mass quantity.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/mar12.htm (269 words)

	Perkin Sir William Henry - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Perkin, Sir William Henry (1838-1907), English chemist, pioneer of synthetic dye production (Dyeing).
		Perkin, William Henry (1860-1929), British organic chemist, elder son of the pioneer of synthetic dyes, Sir William Henry Perkin.
		Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942), British physicist and Nobel laureate, born in Wigton, Cumberland (now Cumbria), and educated at King...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Perkin_Sir_William_Henry.html (120 words)

	William Henry Perkin
		William Henry Perkin, who at the age of 18 had accidentally produced the first ever synthetic dye (aniline purple, better known as mauveine), set up a factory on the banks of the Grand Union Canal in 1857 to produce it.
		In the Imperial College chemistry archives, there is a sample of silk (approx 5 x 10 cm in size) dyed with a batch of the original dye synthesised in the 1850s, and a "penny lilac" postage stamp originally thought to have been dyed with the same compound.
		Perkin and BASF came to an agreement over the manufacturing processes, but the heyday of synthetic dye manufacturing in Greenford was now waning, and in 1874, Perkin sold his dyeworks to Brooke, Simpson and Spiller.
	www.ch.ic.ac.uk /perkin.html (488 words)

	Untitled Document
		Perkin idea of how to synthesize quinine, was to change allyltoluidine, which is an amine produced from coal tar, into quinine by oxidative condensation.
		Perkin started to inspect this fl sludge that he had created and he found that when he dissolved this fl precipitated in ethanol in gave a rich purple colour.
		Perkin hadn't managed to synthesize quinine but he was disappointed with the results of his experiment, as the mauvine was to make him his fortune
	www.chm.bris.ac.uk /webprojects2002/jeffrey/perkins.htm (404 words)

	Mauveine
		Perkin set up a factory (Perkin and Sons) on the banks of the Grand Union (then the Grand Junction) Canal in 1857 to produce mauveine.
		Parts of the original Greenford buildings survived until the centenary celebrations in 1957, and the last traces were demolished as recently as 1976, the only remaining sign being the blue plaque erected on the buildings now there.
		After he retired in 1874, Perkin continued research in organic chemistry, discovering the "Perkin Reaction", and perhaps most significantly, synthesising coumarin, which formed the basis of the synthetic perfume industry.
	www.ch.ic.ac.uk /motm/perkin.html (1419 words)

	William Henry Perkin
		Attending the City of London School he devoted all his spare time to chemistry, and on leaving, in 1853, entered the Royal College of Chemistry, then under the direction of August Wilhelm von Hofmann, in whose own research laboratory he was in the course of a year or two promoted to be an assistant.
		Devoting his evenings to private investigetions in a rough laboratory fitted up at his home, Perkin was fired by some remarks of Hofmann's to undertake the artificial production of quinine.
		That date may therefore be reckoned as that of the foundation of the coal-tar color industry, which has since attained such important dimensions -- in Germany, however, rather than in England the country where it originated.
	www.nndb.com /people/711/000097420 (551 words)

	William Henry Perkin
		A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.
		His teacher, August W. Hofmann, one of Justus von Liebig's former students, had remarked on the desirability of synthesizing this antimalarial drug, which at that time was derived solely from the bark of the cinchona tree, by then grown mainly on plantations in southeast Asia.
		Perkin, at the age of 36, sold his business so that he could devote himself entirely to research, which included early investigations of the ability of some organic chemicals to rotate plane-polarized light, a property used in considering questions of molecular structure.
	www.chemheritage.org /classroom/chemach/chemsynthesis/perkin.html (264 words)

	The history of chemical dyes and Airedale Chemicals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1856 an Englishman, William Henry Perkin, whilst experimenting with coal tar derivatives, discovered the first truly synthetic or "analine dye".
		Perkin's "mauve" became a sensation in Victorian England.
		It may be true to say that the vastly enhanced standard of living enjoyed by billions of people around the world today could not have taken place without the benefits of organic chemistry, which indeed his discovery sparked off.
	www.airedalechemical.co.uk /history.html (211 words)

	No. 2059: William Perkin & Dye
		eet William Henry Perkin, born in London in 1838.
		Chemistry was in the air and Perkin caught a whiff of it.
		Perkin knew that several chemical structures might be made from the same chemical composition.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi2059.htm (565 words)

	March 12 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		English chemist and inventor, Sir William Henry Perkin, in his youth was enthused about chemistry by attending public lectures by Faraday.
		Sir William Henry Bragg was a pioneer British scientist in solid-state physics who was a joint winner (with his son Sir Lawrence Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for research on the determination of crystal structures.
		During the WW I, Bragg was put in charge of research on the detection and measurement of underwater sounds in connection with the location of submarines.
	www.todayinsci.com /3/3_12.htm (3009 words)

	Did You Know?- Got only coal in your stocking this morning? You may be mad, but not as mad as Bill Perkin. Read about a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		William Henry Perkin was an enthusiastic chemistry student at London's Royal College of Science, and at the age of 17 was appointed to be the assistant of noted German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann.
		In 1856, Perkin used his Easter vacation to work on a project based on an offhand suggestion by Hofmann-that a synthetic version of quinine would be quite useful.
		Perkin sold his factory at the age of 36 and was wealthy enough to devote his life to research.
	reference.aol.com /mf_general/_a/got-only-coal-in-your-stocking-this/20050126233309990008 (454 words)

	Awards ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Perkin Medal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) is awarded for discoveries of work of outstanding importance in connection with the tinctorial arts.
		First conferred in 1908, this medal was established in honour of William Henry Perkin, the scientist who discovered the first synthetic dye, mauveine, in 1856.
		Below is a list of all of the recipients that have been awarded the Perkin medal since its establishment (updated 24 May 2006).
	www.sdc.org.uk /education/perkinmedals.htm (103 words)

	Synthetic Organic Chemistry
		Perkin, all on fire, went home (where he had a small laboratory of his own) to tackle the job.
		Fortunately, Perkin was blissfully ignorant of this and, though he failed, he achieved something perhaps greater.
		It was not long after Perkin's original feat that Kekule and his structural formulas supplied organic chemists with a map of the territory, so to speak.
	www.3rd1000.com /history/synorg.htm (4973 words)

	MSU Chemistry - Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies - Individual
		At age 15, Perkin became laboratory assistant to A. von Hofmann at the Royal College of Chemistry and three years later, while attempting to synthesize quinine, oxidized aniline with dichromate and obtained instead aniline fl from which he extracted a purple dye which he named mauve.
		The preparation of unsaturated acids (i.e., cinnamic acid) from an aromatic aldehyde, an acid anhydride and a salt of the corresponding acid, is now known as the Perkin Reaction; he used it, in 1868, to manufacture the first synthetic perfume, coumarin.
		The Perkin Medal, the highest award given by the Society of Chemical Industry, honors his name to this day, as do the organic chemistry journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Perkin Transactions.
	www.chemistry.msu.edu /Portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Perkin (233 words)

	The Synthesis of Aniline Purple
		Perkin had synthesized the first synthetic dye that he would later name aniline purple.
		Perkin realized that he had stumbled across an extremely valuable discovery.
		In addition, because Perkin was working with distilled coal tar, he had no idea of what percentages of aniline, o-toluidine, and p-toluidine he was using.
	www.chem.pacificu.edu /Projects2005/Pages/aniline.htm (1163 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		The bottle on the right is a sample of mauveine acetate dye probably prepared by William Henry Perkin (1838-1907) around 1863-1864.
		Perkin discovered the synthetic dye mauve in 1856 while trying to synthesise quinine, a cure for malaria.
		The synthesis of alizarin had been reported by German chemists Graebe and Liebermann in 1868, but Perkin was the first to manufacture it using economical methods.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?image=10277304 (159 words)

	C&EN: Editor's Page - Innovation Day
		In the spring of 1856, 18-year-old William Henry Perkin was in his lab attempting to synthesize quinine.
		Half a century later, Sir William Henry Perkin was honored across the world: in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, and other cities.
		It is, therefore, entirely fitting that the 2004 Perkin Medal be awarded to Moore and that his name be given to a medal that recognizes the accelerating pace of innovation and global competition.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/editor/print/8237edit.html (702 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)