Books by T.E. Thorpe

Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925) was a chemist, physicist and historian of science. He was the principle chemist at the British Government Laboratory, and was appointed to the chair of chemistry at the Royal College of Science, London in 1885. As well as his biography of Humphry Davy, he wrote upon the history of chemistry, and his Dictionary of Applied Chemistry (1893) was a long-used standard work.