Robert Hare (chemist)
Robert Hare (* January 17, 1781 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † May 15, 1858 Philadelphia ) was an American chemist.
Life
Hare is the son of emigrants from England Robert Hare and Margaret Willing, a cousin of Thomas Willing, a politician and head of the Bank of North America. His father had founded a large brewery in Philadelphia. Hare helped in his youth at the brewery, but did not go to regular school. Due to his interest in science, he attended some courses at James Woodhouse at the Academy of the University of Pennsylvania. After the death of James Woodhouse he wanted to take over the chair, but this was refused due to the lack of promotion. He taught from 1810 to 1812 at the medical faculty at the newly created chair of natural philosophy for him. Since he could win a few students for the optional lectures, this was economically uninteresting for him and he led after the death of his father inherited the brewery on, but with which he came as a result of the war in 1812 in economic difficulties. In 1818 he was offered at William and Mary College, a position as a professor of natural philosophy and later he same year, a position as Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine. This teacher of chemistry he held until 1847. In 1854 he turned to spiritualism and wrote several books that made him famous in the United States as spiritualists.
Hare was married to Harriett Clark, the couple had six children.
Scientific Achievements
Hare researched and developed shortly after 1800 and about the same time as Edward Daniel Clarke from Cambridge to operated with oxygen and hydrogen cutting torch, with which it was possible for him to melt platinum. He wrote in 1802 about a short document Memoir on the Supply and Application of the Blow - Pipe ( Philadelphia: Chemical Society ), which is also known internationally made him its publication in the Philosophical Magazine recognized English and the French Annales de Chimie. Due to his invention of the cutting torch he was inducted in 1803 into the American Philosophical Society. He received from Yale University in 1806, an honorary Doctor of Medicine and in 1816 from Harvard University, another honorary doctorate. For the invention of the cutting torch, he received the first recipient of the Rumford Prize in 1839. In the 1820s he developed the Deflagrator, a form of galvanic cell with particularly large electrodes. He conducted research in the area of the salts.