See also:JOHN See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:DRAPER (1811-1882)
, See also:American scientist, was See also:born at St See also:Helen's, near See also:Liverpool, on the 5th of May 181r
.
He studied at Woodhouse See also:Grove, at the University of See also:London, and, after removing to See also:America in 1832, at the medical school of the University of See also:Pennsylvania in 1835—1836
.
In 1837 he was elected See also:professor of See also:chemistry in the University of the See also:City of New See also:York, and was a professor in its school of See also:medicine in 184o-185o, See also:president of that school in 1850-1873, and professor of chemistry until 1881
.
He died at See also:Hastings, New York, on the 4th of See also:January 1882
.
He made important researches in photo-chemistry, made portrait See also:photography possible by his improvements (1839) on See also:Daguerre's See also:process, and published a See also:Text-See also:book on Chemistry (1846), Text-book on Natural See also:Philosophy (1847), Text-book on See also:Physiology (1866), and Scientific See also:Memoirs (1878) on radiant See also:energy
.
He is well known also as the author of The See also:History of the Intellectual Development of See also:Europe (1862), applying the methods of See also:physical See also:science to history, a History of the American See also:Civil See also:War (3 vols., 1867—187o), and a History of the Conflict between See also:Religion and Science (1874)
.
His son, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:DRAPER (1837—1882), graduated at the University of New York in 1858, became professor of natural science there in 186o, and was professor of physiology (in the medical school) and See also:dean of the See also:faculty in 1866—1873
.
He succeeded his See also:father as professor of chemistry, but only for a See also:year, dying in New York on the loth of See also:November 1882
.
Henry Draper's most important contributions to science were made in See also:spectroscopy; he ruled See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal gratings in 1869—1870, made valuable spectrum photographs after 1871, and proved the presence of See also:oxygen in the See also:sun in a monograph of 1877
.
See also:Edward C
.
See also:Pickering carried on his study of stellar spectra with the funds of the Henry Draper Memorial at Harvard, endowed by his widow (nee See also:Mary See also:Anna See also:Palmer),
See •accounts by See also:George F
.
See also:Barker in See also:Biographical Memoirs of the See also:National See also:Academy of Science, vols
.
2 and 3 (See also:Washington, 1886, 1888)
.
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