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Wilsmore, N. T. M.; Pope, W. J.; Calcott, W. S.; Edwards, F. W.; More, A. (1937). "Obituary notices: John Kenneth Harold Inglis, 1877–1935; Thomas Martin Lowry, 1874–1936; Camille Matignon, 1867–1934; Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 1878–1936; P. A. Ellis Richards, 1868–1936; Percy Richard Sanders,
158: 313:. During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as director of shell-filling (1917–1919) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee. For this service, he was awarded the 309:
Since the establishment of the Faraday Society in 1903, Lowry had been its active member and served as its president between 1928 and 1930. In 1914 he was elected a fellow of the
528: 369:. Lowry published a few hundred papers and several books. His 1935 monograph on "Optical Rotatory Power" (1935) has long been regarded as a standard work on the subject. 400: 362: 211: 106: 523: 479:
Brönsted, J. N. (1923) "Einige Bemerkungen über den Begriff der Säuren und Basen" (Some observations about the concept of acids and bases),
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Medical and became the first teacher of chemistry in a Medical School to be made a University Professor, at the
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derivatives. This led in 1923 to his formulation of the protonic definition of acids and bases, now known as
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family. He was the second son of the Reverend E. P. Lowry who was the minister of the
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and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the
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Thomas Martin Lowry

Low Moor, Bradford
Cambridge
Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
Fellow of the Royal Society
Physical chemistry
Doctoral advisor
Henry Edward Armstrong

CBE
FRS
/ˈlri/
English
physical chemist
Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
Faraday Society
Low Moor, Bradford
West Riding of Yorkshire
Cornish
Wesleyan Church
Aldershot
Kingswood School
Bath, Somerset
Central Technical College
South Kensington
chemistry
Henry Edward Armstrong
organic chemistry

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