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
Joseph Black
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Joseph Black was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was professor of anatomy and chemistry at the University o
Thomas Charles Hope
…to his house at the High School, the University of Edinburgh (MD 1787) and the University of Paris. At the university he was a student of Professor Joseph Black. Hope was a nephew of the physician Alexander Stevenson FRSE…
Mezzotint engraving by James Heath after Sir Henry Raeburn
A precision analytical balance
The world's first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782–83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical changes, calculations which were based on Joseph Black's prior discovery of latent heat.
Joseph Black's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh