Holding Smithson
Smithson Holding (November 30th 1761 - February 22nd 1815) is a British chemist .
Holding for its discovery of two chemical elements is known, the Iridium and the Osmium, in residues of ore solution of Platine. It also contributes to the demonstration of the identity of the Charcoal and the Diamant.
It is born with Selby in the Yorkshire, and studies with the Beverley Grammar School where one can find a plate commemorating the discovery of osmium and iridium. It starts by learning the Médecine with Edinburgh in 1781 but after some month it moves with Cambridge or it is devoted to the Botanique and the Chimie. It obtains its doctorate in 1790 and at the same time a property close to Cheddar buys where it tests in Agriculture. He becomes chemistry teacher in Cambridge in 1813 but gives only one course, he is killed meadows of Boulogne-sur-Mer by the collapse of a bridge on which he walks.
Holding receives the Médaille Copley in 1804, the Tennantite mineral bears its name.
References
External bonds
- osmium, iridium and their discoveries
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