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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

in 1921, where she researched phthalonic acid derivatives under William Henry Perkin. She returned to Japan in 1923 and resumed her role as professor...

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...

MP William Perkins (theologian) (1558–1602), Puritan clergyman and Cambridge theologian William Henry Perkins, better known as Moccasin Bill Perkins (1825–1904)...

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...

synthetic lake pigment alizarin crimson (PR83 in the Color Index). William Henry Perkin had co-discovered a way to synthesize the pigment alizarin, which...

A Perkin triangle is a specialized apparatus for the distillation of air-sensitive materials. It is named after William Henry Perkin Jr., whose design...

synthesis flowed: coal tar → nitrobenzene → aniline → dyes. According to Henry Perkin himself "This industry holds an [sic] unique position in the history...

reaction is also called the Perkin alicyclic synthesis (see: alicyclic compound) after investigator William Henry Perkin, Jr. In the manufacture of medicines...

editor Richard Scott Perkin (1906–1969), American entrepreneur William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), English chemist William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), English...

ring contraction to form a benzofuran. The name reaction recognizes William Henry Perkin, who first reported it in 1870. Several proposals have been made...

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...

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...

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...

phthalocyanine dyes) Sir William Henry Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry) William Henry Perkin, Jr. (organic chemist...

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet 1872–1912 William Odling 1912–1930 William Henry Perkin, Jr., first head of Dyson Perrins Laboratory; 1930–1954...

changed. In 1856, an eighteen-year-old British chemistry student named William Henry Perkin was trying to make a synthetic quinine. His experiments produced...

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...

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:...

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;...

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)...

on a manufacturing scale was mauveine, which was obtained by Sir William Henry Perkin by heating crude aniline with potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid...

alizarin from anthracene was filed one day before the patent of William Henry Perkin. The synthesis is a chlorination or bromination of anthracene with...

reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting William Henry Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. Béchamp also synthesized the...

William Henry Perkins, better known as "Moccasin Bill" Perkins (December 24, 1825 – November 13, 1904), was a frontiersman, scout, and hunter. Born in...