Thomas Charles Hope
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Thomas Charles Hope was a Scottish physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to "Hope's Experiment", which shows that water reaches its maxim
Thomas Charles Hope, portrait by Henry Raeburn
Bust of Thomas Charles Hope by Sir John Steell, Old College, University of Edinburgh
31 Moray Place, Edinburgh
The Hope grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
Alexander Monro Secundus
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Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. He is typically known as Alexander Monro secundus to distinguish him as the second of three gene
Thomas Charles Hope
…chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1787, and professor of medicine in 1789. In January 1788, on the proposal of John Walker, Daniel Rutherford and Alexander Monro, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1791–1792, Hope completed experiments on the chemical element strontium, proposing the…
Alexander Monro secundus, coloured engraving (1800) by James Heath after Henry Raeburn
The grave of Alexander Monro secundus Greyfriars Kirkyard