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JAMES DEWAR

Sir James Dewar was a British chemist and physicist. He was born in 1842 and died in 1923. Together with Frederick Abel he had a part in the invention of cordite but he is chiefly remembered for his work with the liquefaction of gasses and researches on the electrical and other properties of matter at low temperatures. In 1898 he liquefied hydrogen. He became president of the British Association in 1902 and was knighted in 1914.
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