William Ripley Nichols
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| Born | 30 April 1847  |
| Died | 14 July 1886 (aged 39) |
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| Occupation | Chemist |
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William Ripley Nichols (April 30, 1847 – July 14, 1886) was a noted American chemist.
Early life
Nichols was born in
Later life
Professor Nichols was recognized as an authority on sanitation, and particularly on water purification, published numerous papers on municipal water supplies, and was active in the pioneering work of the Lawrence Experiment Station. He also performed research at the request of the Massachusetts Board of Health on train ventilation, particularly of smoking cars. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he was Vice President in 1885, and of the German Chemical Society.
Selected works
- Compendious Manual of Qualitative Analysis, by Charles W. Eliot and Frank H. Storer, with Nichols' revisions, 1872.
- An Elementary Manual of Chemistry, abridged from Eliot and Storer, New York, 1S72.
- Water Supply, mainly from a Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint, 1883.
- Experiments in General Chemistry, with Lewis M. Norton, Boston : private printing, 1884.
References
Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1888). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- "William Ripley Nichols", Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos, New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889.
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