Alexander Lauder
FRSE
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FIC (1870–1943) was a Scottish agricultural chemist.
Life
He was born in
Greenock
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in 1870. He studied at the
Andersonian College in
Glasgow
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under
Professor William Dittmar then at the
University of Edinburgh
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.
He began as an assistant lecturer at
University College Bangor
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in
Wales
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. He then returned to the
University of Edinburgh
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to lecture in Agricultural Chemistry, also lecturing at the East of Scotland College of Agriculture. During this period he lived at 13 George Square in
Edinburgh
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. In 1905 Lauder obtained a DSc from the University of Edinburgh.
In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
Sir James Johnston Dobbie,
Alexander Crum Brown
Alexander Crum Brown Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (26 March 1838 – 28 October 1922) was a Scottish Organic chemistry, organic chemist. Alexander Crum Brown Road in Edinburgh's King's Buildi ...
,
Sir James Walker and
Arthur Pillans Laurie
Prof Arthur Pillans Laurie FRSE LLD (6 November 1861 – 7 October 1949) was a Scottish chemist who pioneered the scientific analysis of paintings, especially by Rembrandt. He was also a Nazi sympathiser who opposed the Second World War.
Early ...
. He served as the Society’s Secretary 1923 to 1928.
He died in
Greenock
Greenock (; ; , ) is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. The town is the administrative centre of Inverclyde Council. It is a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, and forms ...
on 11 November 1943.
[Journal of the Chemical Society: December 1943]
Publications
*''Chemistry and Agriculture'' (1933)
References
1870 births
1943 deaths
Scottish chemists
People from Greenock
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish non-fiction writers
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