Horace Tabberer Brown

Horace Tabberer Brown, born Horace Tabberer, ( born July 20, 1848 † February 6, 1925 ) was a British chemist.

Life

Brown was largely self-taught. His interest in science awakened by his stepfather Edward Brown, a banker and amateur naturalist. From 1865 he studied for two years at the Royal College of Chemistry and from 1866 he worked as a scientist and from 1873 head of production for the Worthington brewery in his home town of Burton-on -Trent, for which he varied with the brewery -related problems examined by the microbiology, chemical analysis to geological investigations in connection with the water supply. He has published about 90 scientific papers. In 1889 he became Managing Director. In 1890 he examined the uptake of carbon dioxide by plants for photosynthesis, which was the subject of his Bakerian Lecture 1905. In 1901, he was the founder of the research laboratories of Guinness in Dublin.

Since he purchased a vineyard in the Cape Province for one of his sons, he also dealt with viticulture. In 1908 he became a member of the Royal Commission on Whisky and Spirits Portable.

In 1889 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Medal in 1903 he and the Copley Medal in 1920, he received. In 1894 he received the Longstaff Medal of the Chemical Society, whose Secretary of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Secretary ) he was. He should also be its president, but prevented health reasons.

The Horace Brown Medal of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling, which he co-founded, is named after him.