Sir William Henry Perkin FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first...

The Perkin reaction is an organic reaction developed by English chemist William Henry Perkin that is used to make cinnamic acids. It gives an α,β-unsaturated...

aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was one of the first synthetic dyes. It was discovered serendipitously by William Henry Perkin in 1856 while he was...

William Henry Perkin Jr., FRS FRSE (17 June 1860 – 17 September 1929) was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research...

first synthetic aniline dye, by Sir William Henry Perkin, an English chemist. The award was given to Sir William on the occasion of his visit to the United...

Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second...

synthesis flowed: coal tar → nitrobenzene → aniline → dyes. According to Henry Perkin himself "This industry holds an [sic] unique position in the history...

MP William Perkins (theologian) (1558–1602), Puritan clergyman and Cambridge theologian William Henry Perkins, better known as Moccasin Bill Perkins (1825–1904)...

ring contraction to form a benzofuran. The name reaction recognizes William Henry Perkin, who first reported it in 1870. Several proposals have been made...

synthetic lake pigment alizarin crimson (PR83 in the Color Index). William Henry Perkin had co-discovered a way to synthesize the pigment alizarin, which...

company for a short time he went in 1886 to Germany to work under William Henry Perkin, Jr. in the laboratories of Adolf von Baeyer at Munich University...

violet. The synthetic dye mauve was first so named in 1859. Chemist William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting in 1856 to synthesize quinine, which...

A Perkin triangle is a specialized apparatus for the distillation of air-sensitive materials. It is named after William Henry Perkin Jr., whose design...

reaction is also called the Perkin alicyclic synthesis (see: alicyclic compound) after investigator William Henry Perkin, Jr. In the manufacture of medicines...

honours degree in 1906. After gaining his master's degree under William Henry Perkin Jr., he was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission...

proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury. Henry VII of England is repeatedly...

Crayola crayon colors. Mauveine was first named in 1856. Chemist Sir William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting to create artificial quinine. An unexpected...

phthalocyanine dyes) Sir William Henry Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry) William Henry Perkin, Jr. (organic chemist...

Barclay Pentland (1797–1873), geographer William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), organic chemist William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), organic chemist Max Perutz...

head or the imagination." In 1856, a young British chemist named William Henry Perkin was trying to make a synthetic quinine. His experiments produced...

The first synthetic dye, mauve, was discovered serendipitously by William Henry Perkin in 1856. The discovery of mauveine started a surge in synthetic dyes...

vitalism. In 1856, William Henry Perkin, while trying to manufacture quinine, accidentally produced the organic dye now known as Perkin's mauve. His discovery...

changed. In 1856, an eighteen-year-old British chemistry student named William Henry Perkin was trying to make a synthetic quinine. His experiments produced...

on a manufacturing scale was mauveine, which was obtained by Sir William Henry Perkin by heating crude aniline with potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid...

reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting William Henry Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. Béchamp also synthesized the...

discovered polystyrene by accident by distilling storax. In 1856, William Henry Perkin discovered the first synthetic dye, Mauveine. In 1888, Friedrich...

under von Hofmann. Sir William Crookes, Edward Divers and J. A. R. Newlands also attended the college. The young William Henry Perkin studied and worked at...

editor Richard Scott Perkin (1906–1969), American entrepreneur William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), English chemist William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), English...

production by Carl Gräbe and Carl Theodore Liebermann in Germany, and by William Henry Perkin in Great Britain) and purpurin (1826), Orcin (1829), amygdalin (1830)...

substance. Coumarin was first synthesized in 1868 by the English chemist William Henry Perkin. Coumarin has been an integral part of the fougère genre of perfume...