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Sir James Dewar FRS (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a British chemist and physicist. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he used in conjunction with ex...
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A vacuum flask , also called a thermos , is a storage vessel which provides thermal insulation by interposing a partial vacuum between the contents and the ambient environment. The evacuated regio...
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Sir James Dewar was the inventor of the Dewar flask - the first thermos and the co-inventor of cordite - a smokeless gunpowder. ... Sir James Dewar, (1842-1923) was a chemist and physicist, best known for his work with low-temperature phenomena. Dewar was born in Kincardine, Scotland, and educated at the University...
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SIR JAMES DEWAR (1842-), British chemist and physicist, was born at Kincardine-on-Forth, Scotland, on the 20th of September 1842. He was educated at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University, being at the latter first a pupil, and afterwards the assistant, of Lord Playfair, then professor of chemistry;
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Learn about the life of Sir James Dewar at Biography.com. Read Biographies, watch interviews and videos. ... Dewar was the first to liquefy and solidify hydrogen, and his 1905 discovery that cooled charcoal can help create high vacuums was useful in atomic physics. ... James Dean...
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Sir James Dewar was born in Kincardine, Scotland, on September 20, 1842, the son of an innkeeper. He attended local schools until he was ten when he suffered a serious case of rheumatic fever lasting two years. During this period he built a violin, and music remained a lifelong interest of his.
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Gazetteer for Scotland: Definitive description of Sir James Dewar (1842 - 1923) ... Dewar was born in Kincardine (Fife) and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875) and, two years afterwards, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution,
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Gazetteer for Scotland: Places, people and events relating to Sir James Dewar (1842 - 1923) ... 1842 - 1923 ... Use the tabs on the right of this page to see other parts of this entry...
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Famous Scots - Sir James Dewar, Inventor of the Vacuum Flask ... Famous Scots - Sir James Dewar (1842-1923 ... Remembered mainly for his invention of the vacuum flask, James Dewar was also a brilliant experimental physicist. He was born at Kincardine-on-Forth on September 20, 1842 and was educated at Edinburgh University.
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