George Downing Liveing

George Downing Liveing
Born 21 December 1827
Died 29 December 1924 (1924-12-30) (aged 97)
Nationality English
Occupation Chemist, spectroscopist
Awards Davy Medal (1901)

George Downing Liveing FRS (21 December 1827 – 29 December 1924) was an English chemist[1] and spectroscopist.

Early life

He was born in Nayland, Suffolk, the eldest son of Dr. Edward Liveing (1795–1843)[2] and Catherine Mary Downing (1798-1872).[3]

Academic career

Liveing educated at St John's College, Cambridge, earning a BA in 1850 and a MA in 1853. Later on his life he was awarded with a Honorary ScD in 1908.[4] In 1853 St John's College founded for him a College Lectureship in Chemistry and built for his use a Chemical Laboratory behind New Court.[4] He was a Fellow of the college and then in 1911 elected as its President, a position that held until his death in 1924. From 1860 to 1880 joined Military College, Sandhurst as Professor of Chemistry. Later returned to his old position as Professor of Chemistry to the Cambridge University from 1880 to 1908.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. He won the Davy Medal in 1901 "for his contributions to spectroscopy".[6]

Personal life

Liveing married in 1860 Catherine Ingram. He died on Boxing Day 1924, aged 97, as the result of being knocked down by a cyclist while walking to his laboratory. He was buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, next to his late, who had died in 1888.

References

  1. ↑ "Liveing, George Downing". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1066.
  2. ↑ Dr. Edward Liveing, M.R.C.S., thekingscandlesticks.com The migraine expert Dr. Edward Liveing was the second son of Dr. Edward Liveing (1795–1843).
  3. ↑ "thekingscandlesticks.com/webs/pedigrees/97.html". THE KING'S CANDLESTICKS: Family Trees.
  4. 1 2 "Liveing, George Downing (LVN845GD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ↑ Pope, W. J. (24 January 1925). "Obituary: G. D. Liveing, F.R.S." Nature. 115: 127–129. Bibcode:1925Natur.115..127P. doi:10.1038/115127a0.
  6. ↑ Archer, Mary D.; Christopher D. Haley (2005). The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and Change. Cambridge University Press. p. 318. ISBN 0-521-82873-2.


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