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James Price (1752 – 3 August 1783), born James Higginbottom, was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold.When challenged to perform the conversion a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead killed himself by drinking prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide).
His body was buried at the Mount Cemetery in Guildford. [7] [8] Other authors include Gerald Seymour, writer of Harry's Game (born in Guildford in 1941) [9] [10] and New York Times film critic Mordaunt Hall, born in the town in 1878. [11] Author and humourist P. G. Wodehouse was born prematurely in Guildford in 1881 while his mother was ...
College Hill is an American reality television series that followed the lives of students at historically black colleges. It originally aired on BET from 2004 to 2009. It returned as College Hill: Celebrity Edition on June 27, 2022 on BET+ .
Neil Bartlett - chemist, creation of the first noble gas compounds (BSc and PhD at King's College, University of Durham, later Newcastle University) [18] Sue Beardsmore - television presenter [19] Alan Beith - politician [20] Jean Benedetti - biographer, translator, director and dramatist [21] Phil Bennion - politician [22]
Normandy is a village and civil parish of 16.37 square kilometres (4,050 acres) in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England. Almost surrounded by its hill ranges, Normandy is in the plain west of Guildford, straddles the A323 'Aldershot Road' and is north of the narrowest part the North Downs known as the Hog's Back which carries a dual carriageway.
Mary Elliott Hill (1907–1969), American chemist who developed analytic methodology for ultraviolet light; Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967), English physical chemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956; Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910–1993), American microbiologist known for development and early understanding of ...
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During the First World War, Hinshelwood was a chemist in an explosives factory. He was a tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, from 1921 to 1937 and was Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford from 1937. He served on several advisory councils on scientific matters to the British Government.