William Cruikshank (chemist)

William Cruickshank (? - 1810 or 1811) were a chemist.

Chemistry teacher with the Royal Military Academy (RMA) of Woolwich, it discovered the element Strontium with Adair Crawford, allowing Humphry Davy to isolate this metal a few years later. He invented the Pile with trough, improvement of the Battery of Volta in 1802 and also undertook experiments in Galvanoplastie.

Also exerting as surgeon in the team of John Rollo, it described the Protéinurie due to the diabetes.

It is often confused with the anatomist William Cruikshank (1745-1800)

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http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/18/7/1281
" William Cruickshank off Woolwich" Volume 15, Number 2/June 1959, author A. Coutts Department off Physics, The Woolwich Polytechnic, London

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