Robert Angus Smith FRS (15 February 1817 – 12 May 1884) was a Scottish chemist, who investigated numerous environmental issues. He is known for his research...
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Robert, Bob or Bobby Smith, or variants thereof, may refer to: Robert MacKay Smith (1802–1888), Scottish businessman, meteorologist and philanthropist...
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Robert A. Smith may refer to: Robert Allan Smith (1909–1980), Scottish physicist Robert Angus Smith (1817–1884), Scottish chemist who investigated environmental...
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(PDF) from the original on 18 June 2006. Retrieved 7 August 2014. Smith, Robert Angus (1856). "Memoir of John Dalton and History of the Atomic Theory up...
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In 1852, Robert Angus Smith was the first to show the relationship between acid rain and atmospheric pollution in Manchester, England. Smith coined the...
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pollution played an increasing part in drawing attention to the problem. Robert Angus Smith made the first measurements of acid rain from rain samples in 1852...
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Patterson Roger Revelle Sherry Roland (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995) Robert Angus Smith Susan Solomon Werner Stumm Ellen Swallow Richards Hans Suess John...
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Angus Macfadyen (born 21 September 1963) is a Scottish actor. His roles include Robert the Bruce, both in Braveheart and Robert the Bruce, Komodo in Warriors...
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measured, in Britain, in the 19th century. In 1852, Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith discovered (and named) acid rain after collecting rain samples that...
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approximately 29,900,000 gallons per year. In 1854, Alexander McDougall and Robert Angus Smith developed and patented a product called McDougall's Powder as a sewer...
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(1949). "Smith, Grafton Elliot". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. A. P. Elkin/N. W. G. Macintosh, Grafton Elliot Smith, The...
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2014. Smith, C. (1998). The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-485-11431-3. Smith, Crosbie...
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Ardwick, Beswick, Cheetham, Chorlton-on-Medlock and Hulme. In 1841, Robert Angus Smith took up work as an analytical chemist at the Royal Manchester Institution...
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Fairbairn, Bt James Prescott Joule (I) Edward William Binney (I) Dr Robert Angus Smith Dr Henry Edward Schunck (I) James Prescott Joule (II) Edward William...
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Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (born 1817), Alsatian French chemist. May 12 – Robert Angus Smith (born 1817), British atmospheric chemist. May 13 – Cyrus McCormick...
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pp. 273–284. Van der Kloot 2014, pp. 129–161. "Casualty Details: Bragg, Robert Charles". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 September 2010...
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William Ferrel (died 1891), American meteorologist. February 15 – Robert Angus Smith (died 1884), Scottish-born atmospheric chemist. April 8 – Charles-Édouard...
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a grandson of King Robert III. The story of Angus' life is interwoven with that of his uncle and King, James I of Scotland. Angus was born about 1398...
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Chemistry at the Royal Manchester Institution, where he was assisted by Robert Angus Smith. Two years later, he was made chemist to the Geological Survey, and...
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Political Economy 1815–1848. CUP Archive. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-521-28759-3. R. Angus Smith, A Centenary of Science in Manchester (1883), p. 233; archive.org. A...
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Falls and the Adirondacks. 1872 — The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain. — World's first national park, Yellowstone...
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and Work of Robert Angus Smith. Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945 (1st ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-18582-6. Smith, Ken (18 April...
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Robiquet (1780–1840), Friedrich Heeren (1803–1885), Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Robert John Kane (1809–1890) into the constituents of lichens had revealed three...
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Friederich Hayek, although the concept can be traced back to at least Adam Smith. Polanyi unlike Hayek argued that there are higher and lower forms of spontaneous...
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James Prescott Joule (I) 1862–64 Edward William Binney (I) 1864–66 Dr Robert Angus Smith 1866–68 Dr Henry Edward Schunck (I) 1868–70 James Prescott Joule (II)...
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merchant (after whom Owens College was named) lived in Nelson Street. Robert Angus Smith, Scottish chemist, had his laboratory in Grosvenor Square. Lily Elsie...
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Inspector became the Chief Inspector. The first Chief Inspector was Dr Robert Angus Smith, he was statutorily responsible for the standards set and maintained...
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Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith. Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945 (1st ed.). London: Routledge...
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Fairbairn, Bt James Prescott Joule (I) Edward William Binney (I) Dr Robert Angus Smith Dr Henry Edward Schunck (I) James Prescott Joule (II) Edward William...
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William (1774-1836)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Thornber, Craig. "Thomas Henry, FRS and his son William Henry...
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