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Abel, Frederick Augustus, Sir, 1826-1902
Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1863-1892.
Materials by or relating to Frederick Augustus Abel can be found in the following series: Referees Reports: 7 reports by Abel on papers by others; 8 reports by others on papers by Abel. Manuscripts (General): 6 items. Miscellaneous Correspondence: 3 items. Miscellaneous Manuscripts: 1 item. [Topic: explosives. Letters to John Hall Gladstone re: Gun Cotton Committee.]
One of the original students at the Royal College of Chemistry and became assistant to A. H. Hofmann (F. R. S. 1851); demonstrator of Chemistry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London 1851, and lecturer on Chemistry at Royal Military Academy at Woolwich 1852; ordnance chemist at Woolwich, 1854, and chemist to War Department there, 1856; chief official authority on explosives and with James Dewar invented cordite 1889; Fellow of the Royal Society 1860; Royal Medal, 1877; president of Chemical Society, 1875-1877; president of Institute of Chemistry, 1881-1882; president of Iron and Steel Institute 1891; Bessemer medallist; Telford medallist; C. B. 1877; Knighted 1883; K. C. B. 1891. Baronet 1893. G. C. V. O. 1901.
Explosives (Technology).
Papers. aat aat
Gladstone, John Hall.
Gun Cotton Committee.
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