Thomas Andrews ( 1813 - 1885 )

Birth: Belfast (19 December 1813) Death: Belfast (26 November 1885) Burial Place: Borough churchyard, Belfast Profession: Surgeon Research Field: Chemistry Education: Belfast Royal Academy; studied under Thomas Thomson (FRS 1811) at Glasgow and under Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas (For Mem RS 1840) and L J Thenard (For Mem 1824) in Paris; Trinity College, Dublin studying classics and science; Edinburgh, MD (Edinburgh) Career: Practised medicine, Belfast (1836-); Professor of Chemistry, Royal Belfast Academic Institution; gave up practice (1845); first Professor of Chemistry, Queen's College, Belfast (1845-1879); Vice-President of Queen's College, Belfast (1845); President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1867); President, British Association (1874); declined a knighthood (1880); Memberships: MRCSE; MRIA (1849); FRSE (1870) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 7/06/1849 Medals/Prizes: Royal Medal 1844 Lectures: Bakerian 1869 and 1876.