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Thomas Andrews (scientist)
Irish chemist and physicist (1813–1885)
For other people named Thomas Andrews, see Thomas Andrews (disambiguation).
Thomas AndrewsFRSFRSE (19 December 1813 – 26 November 1885) was an Irish chemist and physicist who did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids.
Andrew thomas scientist biography
He was a longtime professor of chemistry at Queen's University of Belfast.
Life
Andrews was born in Belfast, Ireland, where his father was a linenmerchant. He attended the Belfast Academy and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where at the latter of which he studied mathematics under James Thomson.
In 1828 he went to the University of Glasgow to study chemistry under Professor Thomas Thomson, then studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained distinction in classics as well as in science. Finally, at University of Edinburgh in 1835, he was awarded a doctorate in medicine.[1]
Andrews began a successful medical practice in his nati