Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet

Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr. ( born February 5, 1817 in London, † November 24, 1880 in Torquay ) was an English chemist.

Life and work

His father was Benjamin Collins Brodie. He studied at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, graduated in 1838 as Bachelor and was in 1845 at the Justus Liebig in Giessen. In 1847 he worked in his private laboratory in London. From 1855 to 1873 he was professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford. He was a member of the Royal Society.

He examined beeswax, the allotropic forms of carbon, discovered in 1863 Säureperoxide and worked on the atomic mass determination.