Martin Lowry 20964 222053694 2008-06-27T09:56:00Z Numbo3-bot 7118326 robot Adding: [[gd:Martin Lowry]] Modifying: [[pt:Thomas Martin Lowry]] '''Thomas Martin Lowry''' ([[October 26]], [[1874]] - [[November 2]], [[1936]]) was an [[England|English]] [[physical chemistry|physical chemist]]. He was born in [[Low Moor, Bradford|Low Moor]], [[Bradford]], [[West Yorkshire]], England. Lowry had a fear of large items, therefore, he directed his life to the study of smaller things. {{Fact|date=April 2007}} In his secondary school, he realised that he wanted to be a chemist. He studied [[chemistry]] under [[Henry Armstrong (chemist)|Henry Armstrong]], an English chemist whose interests were primarily in [[organic chemistry]] but also included the nature of [[ion]]s in [[water|aqueous]] [[solution]]s. In [[1896]] he became Armstrong's assistant. In [[1898]], he noted the change in [[optical rotation]] on nitro-''d''-camphor with time and invented the term '''[[mutarotation]]''' to describe this phenomenon. In [[1906]] became a lecturer in chemistry at Westminster Training College. In [[1912]] he moved to Guy's Hospital Medical School, becoming the head of the chemistry department in [[1913]] and the first professor of chemistry in any [[London]] medical school. In [[1914]] he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1920]] he became the first holder of a chair of [[physical chemistry]] at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. He studied changes in [[optical rotation]] caused by [[acid]]- and [[Base (chemistry)|base]]-[[catalysis|catalyzed]] reactions of [[camphor]] derivatives, which led to his formulation of the [[proton]]ic definition of [[acid]]s and [[base (chemistry)|base]]s in [[1923]], independently of the advocacy of the same concept by [[Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted]] in the same year. He continued working at Cambridge for the rest of his life. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowry, Thomas Martin}} {{England-bio-stub}} [[Category:1874 births]] [[Category:1936 deaths]] [[Category:Physical chemists]] [[Category:People from Bradford]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge]] [[de:Thomas Lowry]] [[es:Thomas Lowry]] [[fr:Thomas Lowry]] [[gd:Martin Lowry]] [[nl:Thomas Lowry]] [[ja:マーチン・ローリー]] [[pt:Thomas Martin Lowry]]