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Categories: People of the Industrial Revolution, archived copy as title, Royal Medal winners, Alumni of Imperial College London, 19th-century British inventors
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William Henry Perkin  Sir William Henry Perkin  Sir William Perkin  W. H. Perkin  William Henry Perkin, Sr.
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Sir William Henry Perkin was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Wikipedia
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chemist
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Sir William Henry Perkin was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Wikipedia
British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
knight bachelor
Lavoisier Medal
Royal Medal
Perkin Medal
Davy Medal
+4 relations
CAUSE OF DEATH
pneumonia
CHILD
Arthur George Perkin
William Henry Perkin, Jr.
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Nordisk familjebok
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Johannes Wislicenus
EDUCATED AT
Royal College of Chemistry
EMPLOYER
Imperial College London
FAMILY NAME
Perkin
FIELD OF WORK
organic chemistry
GIVEN NAME
William
INFLUENCED BY
Hoffmann
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
OCCUPATION
businessperson
chemist
PLACE OF BIRTH
London
PLACE OF DEATH
London Borough of Harrow
SEX OR GENDER
male
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William Henry Perkin
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William Henry Perkin
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Sir William Henry Perkin, Sir William Perkin, W. H. Perkin, William Henry Perkin, Sr., William Henry Perkin (chemist), William Perkin
Wikidata Alias
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Sir William Henry Perkin

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