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George Fownes
(14 May 1815 - 31 Jan 1849)
English chemist who prepared furfurine and benzoline (1845), the first examples of vegeto-alkali or organic salt-bases, as they were known then. Fownes was the first winner of the one hundred guineas (£105) Actonian Prize from the Royal Institution.
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Science Quotes by George Fownes (1)
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
— George Fownes
Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical (1855)
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