Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for James Dewar across 7 places, from 1842 to 1923.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Sir James Dewar (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place James Dewar is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where James Dewar was documented, and when
1842year
Kincardine-on-Forthattested“James Dewar was born in Kincardine, Perthshire (now in Fife) in 1842, the youngest of six boys of Ann Dewar and Thomas Dewar, a vintner.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
1842year
Fifeattested“James Dewar was born in Kincardine, Perthshire (now in Fife) in 1842, the youngest of six boys of Ann Dewar and Thomas Dewar, a vintner.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
1875year
University of Cambridgeattested“In 1875, Dewar was elected Jacksonian professor of natural experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, becoming a member of Peterhouse.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
1878year
Royal Institutionattested“In 1878, he devoted a Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution to the then-recent work of Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet, and exhibited for the first time in Great Britain the working of the Cailletet apparatus.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
1878year
Great Britainattested“In 1878, he devoted a Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution to the then-recent work of Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet, and exhibited for the first time in Great Britain the working of the Cailletet apparatus.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
27 March 1923exact date
Royal Institutionattested“Dewar died at the Royal Institution on 27 March 1923, aged 80, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
27 March 1923exact date
Golders Green Crematoriumattested“Dewar died at the Royal Institution on 27 March 1923, aged 80, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
27 March 1923exact date
Londonattested“Dewar died at the Royal Institution on 27 March 1923, aged 80, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
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1878year
University of Cambridgementioned“Liveing, one of his colleagues at the University of Cambridge, he began in 1878 a long series of spectroscopic observations, the latter of which were devoted to the spectroscopic examination of various gaseous elements separated from atm…”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
1891year
Royal Institutionmentioned“By 1891, he had designed and built, at the Royal Institution, machinery which yielded liquid oxygen in industrial quantities, and towards the end of that year, he showed that magnets strongly attract both liquid oxygen and liquid ozone.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
1907year
American Philosophical Societymentioned“That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society, and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1907.”source: Wikipedia: James Dewar
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