Sir Edward Frankland and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
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Image: © Gerald England Taken: 15 Jun 2017
On the Byrom Street side of Cobden House Chambers Image 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