Sir Rt Hon. Dr Henry Roscoe PC PhD FRS BA
(1833-1915)

Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1st President of the Society of Chemical Industry, Professor of Chemistry (1857-1886), Knight Bachelor (from 1884), and Privy Counsellor (from 1909)

Died aged c. 82

Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe Kt FRS (7 January 1833 – 18 December 1915) was a British chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium, photochemical studies, and his assistance in creating Oxo (food), in its earlier liquid form.

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Sir Edward Frankland PhD FRS Professor of Chemistry 1851-1857 Organometallic compounds. Bonding and Valency. Water Analysis. First President of the Institute of Chemistry. Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe BA PhD FRS Professor of Chemistry 1857-1886. Vanadium. Photochemistry. Spectroscopy. First President of the Society of Chemical Industry. Active in the transfer of Owens College from this building to Oxford Road in 1873 and in the foundation of the Victoria University in 1880.

Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom where they was