Leonard Temple Thorne
1855–1941
Chemist. PhD, Würzburg, 1881. Assistant to William Perkin in his Surrey laboratory from 1881. Chemist at the Oxygen Company, 1886. Later worked for Garton Hill, a supplier of brewing ingredients. Invented the ‘triangle method’ of vacuum distillation.
Sources
BMD (Birth index)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 April 2018)
Sella 2009
Würzburger Hochschulschriften: 1804–1885, Bestandsverzeichnis, p. 41
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Sella, Andrea. 2009. Classic kit: ‘Perkin’s’ triangle. Chemistry World, 8 January 2009. Royal Society of Chemistry, https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/classic-kit-perkins-triangle/3004932.article.
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