2017
SJ8398 : Sir Edward Frankland and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
taken 8 years ago, near to Rusholme, Manchester, England
Sir Edward Frankland and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
On the Byrom Street side of Cobden House Chambers SJ8398 : Cobden House Chambers is a blue plaque to the memory of Sir Edward Frankland and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.
RSC
Sir Edward Frankland PhD FRS
Professor of Chemistry 1851-1857
Organometallic compounds.
Bonding and Valency. Water Analysis.
First President of the Institute of Chemistry
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe BA PhD FRS
Professor of Chemistry 1857-1886
Vanadium. Photochemistry. Spectroscopy.
First President of the Society of Chemical Industry
Active in the transfer of Owens College from this
building to Oxford Road in 1873 and in the
foundation of the Victoria University
in 1880.
Royal Society of Chemistry