Alexander Crum Brown

Alexander Crum Brown ( born March 26, 1838 in Edinburgh, † October 28, 1922 ) was a Scottish chemist.

Life

Brown studied at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. In 1861 he became the M.D. doctorate. He then studied in London, Heidelberg with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in Marburg and at Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe. In 1863 he got a job at the University of Edinburgh. In 1865 he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians.

Brown was 1869-1908 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. His focus was Organic Chemistry. He delivered pioneering work on the representation of chemical compounds in diagrammatic form.