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In 1899 he discovered the Cioch, a unique rock feature on the Coire Lagan face of Sron na Ciche. This he climbed in 1906 with
Mackenzie, who named it from the Gaelic word for a breast. Collie was instrumental in producing much better maps of the Cuillin which had previously defied the skills of
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Collie appears to have begun climbing in Skye in 1886. He went there with his brothers to fish but made an ascent of Sgùrr nan
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Professor of Organic Chemistry at UCL from 1896 to 1913, and headed its chemistry department from 1913 to 1928. He performed important research that led to the taking of the first
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Godfrey Solly and J. Collier on 29 March 1894. The ridge had one previous descent by the Hopkinsons in 1892. In 1894 he also climbed the eponymous Collie's Pinnacle on
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where, according to his niece, "he was far from being a ladies' man and probably found that schoolgirls in bulk were rather more than he could stomach". He left to join
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salt." The work on neon discharge lamps was conducted in 1909. The effect of glowing neon in contact with mercury was later sometimes called the
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Bentley, R. (1999). "John Norman Collie: Chemist and Mountaineer".
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in 1884. Returning to Britain, he taught three years at
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638:. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada.
538:Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
300:In the 1997 BBC TV series on Scottish climbing,
383:Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies
939:Davies & Garrett, A.G. & P.J. (2013).
889:Climbers Guide to Glencoe and Ardgour, Vol. 2
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903:From the Himalaya to Skye
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188:(UCL) as an assistant to
186:University College London
182:Cheltenham Ladies College
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691:Thompson, Simon (2010).
663:"Dr Norman Macleod FRSE"
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453:Honours and affiliations
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407:pneumonia
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313:Ben Nevis
244:avocation
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496:Memorial
359:Himalaya
357:and the
355:Caucasus
328:Himalaya
302:The Edge
178:Würzburg
756:Bibcode
584:Bibcode
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250:in the
248:Cuillin
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