Henry Carrington Bolton

Henry Carrington Bolton ( born January 8, 1843 in New York City; † November 19, 1903 ) was an American chemist.

In 1862 he graduated from the Columbian College in New York and began the following year to study with Jean -Baptiste Dumas and Charles Adolphe Wurtz in Paris. 1864/65 he studied under Bunsen in Heidelberg and in 1866 Dr. phil. his doctorate under Friedrich Wöhler in Göttingen. He was then an assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann in Berlin and subsequently made ​​trips to Mexico, Canada and California.

In 1872 he was Instructor of Chemistry at the School of Mines of Columbia University in New York City. In 1874 he was appointed to the chair of chemistry at the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. In 1877 he became professor of chemistry and natural sciences at Trinity College (Hartford ), Connecticut.

He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1878 and 1882, the Secretary-General whose Vice President. Furthermore, he was corresponding secretary of the New York Academy and vice-president of the American Association. In 1900 he became president of the Chemical Society in Washington.

Works

• The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II, 1576 - 1612 - Milwaukee:. . Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co, 1904 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf

• Chemists ( 19th century)
• Americans
• Born in 1843
• Died in 1903
• Man