James Dewar
1842 – 1923 · aged 81
Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
- Born
- 20 Sept 1842 · Kincardine
- Died
- 27 Mar 1923 · London
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 20 Sept 1842BornBorn in Kincardine
- 1877AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1894AwardRumford Medal
- 1896AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1899AwardHodgkins Medal
- 1901AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
- 1904AwardKnight Bachelor
- 1904AwardLavoisier Medal
- 1906AwardMatteucci Medal
- 1908AwardAlbert Medal
- 1909AwardDavy Medal
- 1916AwardCopley Medal
- 1919AwardFranklin Medal
- 27 Mar 1923DiedDied in London
Loading from Wikipedia and Wikidata…
Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1842 – 1923).
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
Biography
Sir James Dewar ( DEW-ər; 20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction for his research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied atomic and molecular spectroscopy, working in these fields for more than twenty-five years. Dewar was nominated for the Nobel Prize eight times — five times in Physics and three times in Chemistry — but he was never so honoured.
Text from the Wikipedia article James Dewar, CC BY-SA 4.0
About this information
Dates and life events come from this person’s Wikidata entry.
We only show events that the sources give a date for. Anything without a date is left out rather than guessed.