Life
1813-1885; scientist; b. Belfast, 19 Dec.; ed. RBAI, Glasgow, Dublin, and Edinburgh; studied chemistry under Dumas in Paris; diploma of Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; MD, 1835; private practice in Belfast; vice-president of Northern (now Queen’s) College, Belfast, 1845; Prof. of Chemistry, QUB, 1849-79; showed that ozone is not a compound but oxygen in allotropic form; his work on continuity of gaseous and liquid states discovered the existence of a critical temperature above which gas cannot be converted to liquid by pressure; issued plea for the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and distribution of its assets, in The Church in Ireland (1869); FRS, 1849; hon FRS, Edinburgh, 1870; LL D, Edinburgh, 1871, TCD 1873, and Glasgow 1877; D.Sc. Queen’s University of Ireland, 1879, where an Andrews studenship was established in his name; d. Fort William Park, Belfast, 26 Nov.; his papers were collected in a 500-page volume of extent with a memoir (1889). DIB
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Works
The Scientific Papers of the late Thomas Andrews MD FRS, with a Memoir by P. G. Tait and A. C. Brown (London: Macmillan 1889), 514pp.
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