Thomas Andrews was an Irish chemist. He was born in 1813 at Belfast and died in 1885. He studied chemistry at Glasgow under Thomas Thomson, and for a short time in Paris; then medicine at Belfast, Dublin, and Edinburgh, taking the degree of MD at the last place. After practising and teaching chemistry for ten years in Belfast, he was appointed vice-president of the Northern College there, which in 1849 was converted into Queen's College at which point he became president, and was professor of chemistry in Queens College from 1845 to 1879. He published important researches into the heat evolved and absorbed in chemical combinations, and in connection with the liquefaction of gases. Research Thomas Andrews
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