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PROF. HOLLAND CROMPTON, formerly professor of organic chemistry at Bedford College, London, who died on Dec. 22, 1931, was born in Preston, Lancashire, on April 30,1866. He attended school in Stuttgart and later studied chemistry under Prof. H. E. Armstrong at the City and Guilds Institute. In 1888 he was appointed lecturer and head of the Department of Chemistry at Bedford College, London, in succession to Spencer U. Pickering. He held this post until 1919, when the department was divided, and from that date until his retirement in 1927, on account of ill-health, he was head of the Department of Organic Chemistry. Crompton never enjoyed robust health, and in his later years it became steadily worse. He will be remembered by both organic and physical chemists on account of his work on acenaphthene, atomic energy and the specific heat of gases, molecular association and molecular magnitudes, osmotic pressure and the electrolytic dissociation theory.
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[Obituary]. Nature 129, 228 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129228b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129228b0