HANS See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

PETER JORGEN See also:

• JULIUS

JULIUS See also:

• THOMSEN, GRIMUR (182o-1896)
• HANS PETER JORGEN JULIUS THOMSEN (1826–1909)

THOMSEN (1826–1909)  , Danish chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen on the 16th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1826, and spent his See also:

• LIFE

life in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . From 1847 to 1856 he was engaged in teaching See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry at the See also:

• POLYTECHNIC (Gr. aroWus, many, and rEXvn, an art)

Polytechnic, of whichfrom 1883 to 1892 he acted as director, and from 1856 to 1866 he was on the See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of the military high school . In 1866 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of chemistry at the university, and retained that See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair until his retirement from active See also:

• WORK

work in 1891 . His name is famous for his researches in See also:

• THERMOCHEMISTRY

thermochemistry, and, especially between 1869 and 1882, he carried out a See also:

• GREAT

great number of determinations of the See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat evolved or absorbed in chemical reactions, such as the formation of salts, oxidation and reduction, and the See also:

• COMBUSTION (from the Lat. comburere, to burn up)

combustion of organic compounds . His collected results were published in 1882–1886 in four volumes under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Thermochemische Untersuchungen, and also a resume in See also:

• ENGLISH

English under the title Thermochemistry in I9o8 . In 1857 he established in Copenhagen a See also:

• PROCESS

process for manufacturing soda from See also:

• CRYOLITE

cryolite, obtained from the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• GREENLAND (Danish, &c., Gronland)

Greenland . He died on the 13th of February 1909 . His See also:

• BROTHER

brother, Carl See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August See also:

• THOMSEN, GRIMUR (182o-1896)
• THOMSEN, HANS PETER JORGEN JULIUS (1826–1909)

Thomsen (1834–1894), was lecturer on technical chemistry at the Copenhagen Polytechnic, and a second brother, See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Gottfried Thomsen (1841–1901), was assistant in the chemical laboratory at the university till 1884, when he abandoned See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science for See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology, subsequently becoming See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister at Norup and See also:

• RANDERS

Randers .