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    Sir William Henry Perkin FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first...
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  • The Perkin reaction is an organic reaction developed by English chemist William Henry Perkin in 1868 that is used to make cinnamic acids. It gives an α...
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    Mauveine (redirect from Perkin's mauve)
    aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was one of the first synthetic dyes. It was discovered serendipitously by William Henry Perkin in 1856 while he was...
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    William Henry Perkin Jr., FRS FRSE (17 June 1860 – 17 September 1929) was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research...
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    first synthetic aniline dye, by Sir William Henry Perkin, an English chemist. The award was given to Sir William on the occasion of his visit to the United...
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    Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second...
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    ring contraction to form a benzofuran. The name reaction recognizes William Henry Perkin, who first reported it in 1870. Several proposals have been made...
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    in 1921, where she researched phthalonic acid derivatives under William Henry Perkin. She returned to Japan in 1923 and resumed her role as professor...
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  • MP William Perkins (theologian) (1558–1602), Puritan clergyman and Cambridge theologian William Henry Perkins, better known as Moccasin Bill Perkins (1825–1904)...
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  • company for a short time he went in 1886 to Germany to work under William Henry Perkin, Jr. in the laboratories of Adolf von Baeyer at Munich University...
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    synthetic lake pigment alizarin crimson (PR83 in the Color Index). William Henry Perkin had co-discovered a way to synthesize the pigment alizarin, which...
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    honours degree in 1906. After gaining his master's degree under William Henry Perkin Jr., he was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission...
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    synthesis flowed: coal tar → nitrobenzene → aniline → dyes. According to Henry Perkin himself "This industry holds an [sic] unique position in the history...
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    A Perkin triangle is a specialized apparatus for the distillation of air-sensitive materials. It is named after William Henry Perkin Jr., whose design...
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  • editor Richard Scott Perkin (1906–1969), American entrepreneur William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), English chemist William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), English...
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  • reaction is also called the Perkin alicyclic synthesis (see: alicyclic compound) after investigator William Henry Perkin, Jr. In the manufacture of medicines...
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  • research in any area of organic chemistry. The prize is named after Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), inventor of the first aniline dye, and is awarded on...
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  • presenting a bust of Michael Faraday. The marble bust representing Sir William Henry Perkin was presented to the Chemical Society in 1907 by a committee administering...
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    violet. The synthetic dye mauve was first so named in 1859. Chemist William Henry Perkin, then 18, was attempting to synthesize quinine in 1856; quinine was...
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  • phthalocyanine dyes) Sir William Henry Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry) William Henry Perkin, Jr. (organic chemist...
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  • 1880–1882 Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert: 1882–1883 William Henry Perkin: 1883–1885 Hugo Muller [de]: 1885–1887 Sir William Crookes: 1887–1889 William James Russell:...
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    changed. In 1856, an eighteen-year-old British chemistry student named William Henry Perkin was trying to make a synthetic quinine. His experiments produced...
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    production by Carl Gräbe and Carl Theodore Liebermann in Germany, and by William Henry Perkin in Great Britain) and purpurin (1826), Orcin (1829), amygdalin (1830)...
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    reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting William Henry Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. Béchamp also synthesized the...
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    Crayola crayon colors. Mauveine was first named in 1856. Chemist Sir William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting to create artificial quinine. An unexpected...
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    alleviate the shortages. Synthetic dye was discovered by English chemist William Henry Perkin in 1856. At the time, chemistry was still in a quite primitive state;...
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    on a manufacturing scale was mauveine, which was obtained by Sir William Henry Perkin by heating crude aniline with potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid...
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    proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury. Henry VII of England is repeatedly...
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    after the works started operation in December of that year. In 1856 William Henry Perkin discovered a process to make the first commercial synthetic organic...
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    alizarin from anthracene was filed one day before the patent of William Henry Perkin. The synthesis is a chlorination or bromination of anthracene with...
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