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IN evidence on technical education given before the Select Committee on Estimates on June 19, 1953, and published in its twelfth report for the session 1952–53, Dr. (now Sir) D. S. Anderson, director of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, mentioned that Prof. W. H. Perkin, of dye fame, had been a professor there. Afterwards, in an article on the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, in the Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry in 1954, Dr. J. A. Cranston, after stating that in 1870 James Young, who was at that time president of Anderson's University, founded the chair of technical chemistry which bears his name, giving 10,000 guineas to endow what was the first chair of applied chemistry in the United Kingdom and further sums of money to provide suitable buildings and fittings, added : “The first ‘Young’ Professor of Technical Chemistry, 1870–71, was William H. Perkin, discoverer of mauve dye and founder of the coal-tar colour industry”.
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BRIGHTMAN, R. W. H. Perkin and the Young Chair of Technical Chemistry in the Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow. Nature 182, 613 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182613b0
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