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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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“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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