Alexander william williamson biography of mahatma

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          Alexander Williamson was a leading scientist and professor of chemistry at University College London in the late nineteenth century..

          Alexander William Williamson

          English chemist (1824–1904)

          Alexander William WilliamsonFRSFRSEPCS MRIA (1 May 1824 – 6 May 1904)[1] was an English chemist.

          He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis.

          Life

          Williamson was born in 1824 in Wandsworth, London, the second of three children of Alexander Williamson (originally from Elgin) a clerk with the East India Company and his wife, Antonia McAndrew, daughter of a prominent London merchant.

          “Books Read by Gandhi,” in Ananda M. Pandiri, A comprehensive, annotated bibliography on Mahatma Gandhi.

        1. His biography, The. Good Boatman: A Portrait of Gandhi, was published in At the special request of the editor of History at Illinois, he provided the.
        2. Alexander Williamson was a leading scientist and professor of chemistry at University College London in the late nineteenth century.
        3. The first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the.
        4. After his death in , the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established that an annual prize be awarded for service to humanity in the fields of.

          5. Despite early physical infirmity, the loss of sight in one eye and a largely useless left arm, Williamson grew up in a caring and stimulating intellectual environment. After an early childhood spent in Brighton and then schools in Kensington, Williams enrolled at the University of Heidelberg in 1841.

          After working under Leopold Gmelin at Heidelberg, he transferred to the University of Giessen to work with Justus von Liebig, where he received his PhD in 1845. Williamson then spent three years in Pari