- Recruited as director of the Royal College of Chemistry (1845) to start the first UK school of practical chemistry.
- 1847: Remarks on the Importance of
Cultivating Experimental Science In a national Point of View
- He introduced (~1860) the idea of using molecular models in lectures, employing Odling's 1855 idea of
the tetravalency of carbon.
- (organic) Chemistry had not yet entered 3D!
The idea led to the structure of DNA (1953).
Molecular models enter the Web (1994).
Those shown here were obtained
using the Imperial College High Performance Computing Facilities.