Thursday, April 4, 2019

Tennent, Smithson : 1781-1815

Tennent, Smithson (1781-1815)
English chemist, was born at Selby, Yorkshire.  He studied botany, chemistry, and medicine at Cambridge, where he was graduated in medicine in 1790.  in 1813, he was appointed professor of chemistry at Cambridge.  His most notable achievement was the discovery of the metals iridium and osmium.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1985

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