ยอแฮนเนิส นิกอเลอุส ปรันสเตด
ยอแฮนเนิส นิกอเลอุส ปรันสเตด
เกิด22 กุมภาพันธ์ ค.ศ. 1879(1879-02-22)
วาเดอ ประเทศเดนมาร์ก
เสียชีวิต17 ธันวาคม ค.ศ. 1947(1947-12-17) (68 ปี)
โคเปนเฮเกน ประเทศเดนมาร์ก
สัญชาติเดนมาร์ก
มีชื่อเสียงจากBrønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
Brønsted catalysis equation
Specific ion interaction theory
รางวัลH. C. Ørsted Medal
อาชีพทางวิทยาศาสตร์
สาขาเคมีเชิงฟิสิกส์
สถาบันที่ทำงานมหาวิทยาลัยโคเปนเฮเกน

ยอแฮนเนิส นิกอเลอุส ปรันสเตด (เดนมาร์ก: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted; ภาษาเดนมาร์ก: [joˈhænˀəs ne̝koˈlɛːus ˈpʁɶnsteð]; 22 กุมภาพันธ์ ค.ศ. 1879 – 17 ธันวาคม ค.ศ. 1947) เป็นนักเคมีเชิงฟิสิกส์ชาวเดนมาร์กผู้พัฒนาทฤษฎีกรด-เบสเบรินสเตด-ลาวรี[1]พร้อมกันกับมาร์ติน ลาวรี[2]

ประวัติ แก้

ปรันสเตดเกิดที่เมืองวาเดอ ประเทศเดนมาร์กเมื่อวันที่ 22 กุมภาพันธ์ ค.ศ. 1879 แม่ของปรันสเตดเสียชีวิตหลังเขาเกิดไม่นานนัก ส่วนพ่อของเขาเสียชีวิตเมื่อเขาอายุได้ 14 ปี เขาจึงย้ายไปอยู่ที่กรุงโคเปนเฮเกนกับพี่สาวและแม่เลี้ยง[3] ปรันสเตดเข้าเรียนวิศวกรรมเคมีที่สถาบันโพลีเทคนิคในกรุงโคเปนเฮเกนใน ค.ศ. 1897 อย่างไรก็ตาม หลังจบปริญญาตรี ปรันสเตดได้เปลี่ยนไปเรียนเคมี และสำเร็จการศึกษาระดับ magister degree ใน ค.ศ. 1902 จากมหาวิทยาลัยโคเปนเฮเกน ใน ค.ศ. 1905 ปรันสเตดเข้าทำงานเป็นผู้ช่วยวิจัยที่สถาบันเคมี และสำเร็จการศึกษาระดับปริญญาเอกใน ค.ศ. 1908 ซึ่งในปีเดียวกันนั้นปรันสเตดได้เข้าทำงานเป็นศาสตราจารย์ด้านเคมีเชิงฟิสิกส์และเคมีอนินทรีย์ที่มหาวิทยาลัยโคเปนเฮเกน[4]

In 1929, Brønsted was a visiting professor at Yale University.[5] His research gained worldwide recognition, resulting in four Nobel prize nominations, a gold H. C. Ørsted Medal and being appointed as a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[2][6]

Brønsted married Charlotte Warberg, whom he met during his first degree. The couple had four children.[7] In World War II, Brønsted's opposition to the Nazis led to his election to the Danish parliament in 1947, but he was too ill to take his seat and died shortly after the election.[2]

Research แก้

Early in his career, Brønsted studied chemical thermodynamics and later studied electrolyte solutions and carried out an extensive series of solubility measurements. These measurements led him to establish general laws which were later confirmed when the Debye–Hückel theory was proposed.[8][4]

Brønsted is best known for his work on reaction kinetics, in particular acid–base reactions. In 1923, he recognized that acid–base reactions involved the transfer of a proton, from the acid (proton donor) to the base (proton acceptor).[9] Almost simultaneously and independently, the British chemist Martin Lowry arrived to the same conclusion, thus the name Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory.[10] Also in 1923, Gilbert N. Lewis proposed an electronic theory of acid–base reactions, but both theories remain commonly used.[11]

Later in his career, Brønsted kept studying reaction kinetics, with a special focus on reactions taking place in non-aqueous solutions. He also developed some work about the effect of molecular size on the thermodynamical properties of hydrocarbons, polymers and colloids.[8] He also worked with the Nobel prize winner George de Hevesy on isotope separation by fractional distillation.[12]

อ้างอิง แก้

  1. "พจนานุกรมศัพท์วิทยาศาสตร์ คณิตศาสตร์ และเทคโนโลยี". สืบค้นเมื่อ 28 October 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted". Encyclopædia Britannica. สืบค้นเมื่อ March 28, 2012.
  3. "Biography of Johannes Nicolaus Brönsted (1879-1947)". The Biography.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Bell, R. P. (1950). "The Brönsted memorial lecture". J. Chem. Soc.: 409–419. doi:10.1039/JR9500000409.
  5. Oesper, Ralph E. (April 1938). "Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted (1879-)". Journal of Chemical Education. 15 (4): 151. Bibcode:1938JChEd..15..151.. doi:10.1021/ed015p151.
  6. "Nomination Archive - Johannes N Brönsted". NobelPrize.org. 1 April 2020. สืบค้นเมื่อ 27 January 2021.
  7. "Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted". Kilder til Dansk Kunsthistorie. สืบค้นเมื่อ 26 January 2021.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Bell, R. P. (February 1948). "Prof. J. N. BrØnsted". Nature. 161 (4086): 269. Bibcode:1948Natur.161..269B. doi:10.1038/161269a0.
  9. Brönsted, J. N. (1923). "Einige Bemerkungen über den Begriff der Säuren und Basen (Some observations about the concept of acids and bases)". Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas. 42 (8): 718–728. doi:10.1002/recl.19230420815.
  10. Lowry, T. M. (19 January 1923). "The uniqueness of hydrogen". Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry. 42 (3): 43–47. doi:10.1002/jctb.5000420302.
  11. "Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted". Encyclopædia Britannica. สืบค้นเมื่อ March 28, 2012.
  12. Brønsted, J. N.; Hevesy, G. (September 1920). "The Separation of the Isotopes of Mercury". Nature. 106 (2657): 144. Bibcode:1920Natur.106Q.144B. doi:10.1038/106144c0.

มาร์ติน ลาวรี แก้

Thomas Martin Lowry
 
Lowry, c. 1910
เกิด26 ตุลาคม ค.ศ. 1874(1874-10-26)
Low Moor, Bradford, UK
เสียชีวิต2 พฤศจิกายน ค.ศ. 1936(1936-11-02) (62 ปี)
Cambridge, UK
สัญชาติBritish
มีชื่อเสียงจากBrønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
รางวัลFellow of the Royal Society[1]
อาชีพทางวิทยาศาสตร์
สาขาPhysical chemistry
อาจารย์ที่ปรึกษาในระดับปริญญาเอกHenry Edward Armstrong
 
Martin Lowry

Thomas Martin Lowry CBE FRS[1] (/ˈlri/; 26 October 1874 – 2 November 1936) was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the Faraday Society.[2]

Biography แก้

Lowry was born in Low Moor, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in a Cornish family. He was the second son of the Reverend E. P. Lowry who was the minister of the Wesleyan Church in Aldershot from 1892 to 1919. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, Somerset, and then at the Central Technical College in South Kensington. During those years he realized that he wanted to be a chemist. He studied chemistry under Henry Edward Armstrong, an English chemist whose interests were primarily in organic chemistry but also included the nature of ions in aqueous solutions. From 1896 to 1913 Lowry was assistant to Armstrong, and between 1904 and 1913 worked as lecturer in chemistry at the Westminster Training College. In 1913, he was appointed head of the chemical department in Guy’s Hospital Medical and became the first teacher of chemistry in a Medical School to be made a University Professor, at the University of London. From 1920 till his death, Lowry served as the Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He married a daughter of the Rev. C. Wood in 1904 and was survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter.[2]

Since the establishment of the Faraday Society in 1903, Lowry had been its active member and served as its president between 1928 and 1930. In 1914 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.[1] During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as director of shell-filling (1917–1919) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee. For this service, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.[2]

Research แก้

In 1898, Lowry noted the change in optical rotation on nitro-d-camphor with time and invented the term mutarotational to describe this phenomenon. He studied changes in optical rotation caused by acid- and base-catalyzed reactions of camphor derivatives. This led in 1923 to his formulation of the protonic definition of acids and bases, now known as Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory, independently of the work by Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted.[3][4] Lowry published a few hundred papers and several books. His 1935 monograph on "Optical Rotatory Power" (1935) has long been regarded as a standard work on the subject.[2]

อ้างอิง แก้

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pope, W. J. (1938). "Thomas Martin Lowry. 1874-1936". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 287–293. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0009.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Wilsmore, N. T. M.; Pope, W. J.; Calcott, W. S.; Edwards, F. W.; More, A. (1937). "Obituary notices: John Kenneth Harold Inglis, 1877–1935; Thomas Martin Lowry, 1874–1936; Camille Matignon, 1867–1934; Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 1878–1936; P. A. Ellis Richards, 1868–1936; Percy Richard Sanders, 1875–1937". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 700. doi:10.1039/JR9370000700.
  3. Lowry, T. M. (1923) "The uniqueness of hydrogen," Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, 42 (3) : 43–47.
  4. Brönsted, J. N. (1923) "Einige Bemerkungen über den Begriff der Säuren und Basen" (Some observations about the concept of acids and bases), Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas, 42 (8) : 718–728.

โจเซฟ ฮาร์ดิง แก้

 
Etching of Cheese Maker Joseph Harding (1805-1876) of Wanstrow, Somerset, England
 
The memorial to Joseph Harding in the Church of St Peter, Marksbury

Joseph Harding (22 March 1805 in Sturton Farm, Wanstrow, Somerset, England – 1 May 1876 in Vale Court Farm, Marksbury, Somerset) was responsible for the introduction of modern cheese making techniques and has been described as the "father of Cheddar cheese".[1] He is credited with having invented the "definite formula" for the production of cheddar cheese.[2]

A number of websites describe him as the inventor of the Cheese Mill.[3] It is unclear if this assertion is true. The cheese mill is different from the cheese press, which has been used traditionally for centuries. Certainly, Harding introduced new equipment into the process of cheese making, including a "revolving breaker" for curd cutting, which saved much manual effort.[4][5]

Family background แก้

 
Joseph Harding's grave in the Church of St Peter, Marksbury

Joseph Harding was the second son of Joseph Harding (born 24 June 1778, died Friday 23 September 1814) of Sturton Farm and Mary Yeoman of the Great House, Wanstrow. The Harding family had originally come from Pewsey, Wiltshire where they had farmed for five generations.[6] Joseph Harding's siblings were:

  • Alonzo Harding, born on Friday 13 October 1802 (who died on Friday 7 February 1806)
  • Joseph Harding born on Friday 22 March 1802 (of Cheddar Cheese fame, but clearly year of birth differs from that in introduction)
  • John Harding, born on Saturday 18 March 1807
  • Richard Harding, born on Sunday, 7 May 1809. Became a missionary to Jamaica.
  • George Harding, born on Thursday 21 February 1811
  • Mary Yeoman Harding, born on 18 December 1812 and mother of Rev. Henry Hayes Vowles. She had "a life of much sadness, but her sweet disposition, like her mother's, made her a favourite with everybody".[7]
  • Isaac Harding born on Monday 20 February 1815. Isaac became a missionary in Australia at the time of the great gold discoveries. There "he led a very active and adventurous life until he died in 1897. It is said that he was stoned from one town and stopped the cricketers' Sunday play in another by pocketing their ball".[7] He also became a missionary in New Zealand and had many descendants there.
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Gravestone of Joseph Harding's sister Mary Yeoman Harding (right) at Stalbridge, Dorset: "Mary Yeoman Harding wife of Henry Vowles died Jan 10th 1886 aged 74 years. Hab im 17–18". Left is the grave of her son "Sacred to the memory of John Alonzo Vowles (of Bruton) who was drowned whilst bathing in the river Stour july 19 1865 aged 20 years"

Joseph Harding married Rachel Wimboult in St. Mary's Redcliffe, Bristol in 1824. They lived in Compton Dando and Marksbury. She was active in his teaching of cheese making techniques.

Joseph Harding was related to the family of Richard Hardinge (c1593 – ) Groom to the Bedchamber to Charles II and Member of Parliament in 1640 for Great Bedwyn.

The Victoria County History of Somerset says: "In 1856 the Joseph Harding system of cheese-making was made public as the result of a deputation of Scotchmen coming south to investigate the originators of the system. To Mrs Harding, Marksbury, and her nephew, Joseph Harding, of Compton Dando, is due the institution of a definite procedure in cheese-making for mere rule of thumb. For twenty years the Harding system was the model, though nearly every maker had his or her variations in detail. The main feature, as we view it now, was the insistence on absolute cleanliness. The milkers were not allowed to bring the milk in direct from the farmyard. They had to pour it into a receiver outside the dairy wall, whence by means of a pipe it was conveyed inside to the cheese tub... [Here follows details of the method – R.D.R]. this was founded the real Cheddar cheese of modern commerce. The name of Harding must go down with it for all time. It will be noticed that he did not use either the acidimeter or sour whey, but he lifted the make out of the old ruts of mere practical chance and introduced to it the more definite methods of science. Indeed, he must be rightly termed the first scientific instructor in Cheddar cheese-making".[7] .

Technical innovations in the production of cheese แก้

Joseph Harding is attributed with "an easy way of draining the curds of as much of their moisture as possible. This resulted in a semi-hard, close-textured, non-crumbly cheese, the style universally associated with Cheddar. Harding, born into a cheesemaking family in 1805, was more than any other individual responsible for the international spread of Cheddar as a popular cheese, helping to introduce Cheddar-making into Scotland, and also training American cheesemakers on their visits to Somerset."[3] Another commentator has put his contribution thus: "his major contribution was to improve dairy hygiene and to standardise the methods used for making cheddar".[8]

His dictum was 'Cheese is not made in the field, nor in the byre, nor even in the cow, it is made in the dairy'.[9]

The English method of producing cheddar cheese was known in America as "the Joseph Harding Method".[10][11]

Joseph Harding described good cheese as: "close and firm in texture, yet mellow in character or quality; it is rich with a tendency to melt in the mouth, the flavour full and fine, approaching to that of a hazlenut".[12]

Harding believed that "a sharp cutting instrument in breaking the curd is injurious and that the curd should be allowed to split apart according to its natural grain".[13]

Harding was insistent upon temperature control and strict hygiene in the production of cheese. He stated "the milkers may not enter the dairy, a tin receiver is placed outside the house, into which the milk is poured and conveyed to the cheese tub by a conduit, at each end of which is a strainer to prevent any filth from the yard from passing into the cheese-tub". This technique is notable as a development in food hygiene.

Joseph Harding method แก้

The Joseph Harding (or English) Cheddar system differed from later systems as follows:[14]

  • the manner in which the necessary acidity in the milk is produced. In the old method a certain quantity of sour whey was added to the milk each day before adding the rennet
  • in the old method the curd was allowed to mature in the bottom of the tub

Globalisation of a very English Cheese แก้

Harding and his wife visited Ayrshire, Scotland and were responsible for the introduction there of modern cheese-making techniques. Similarly he received visits from Americans who took his ideas across the Atlantic. For these reasons cheddar cheese is produced not only in Somerset, but across the world. He did not charge for his educational efforts.

Not only did Harding himself teach his cheddaring methods in Scotland, but his wife was also invited to Ayrshire to teach.[15]

The American dairyman Xerxes Willard visited Harding in England in 1866 and noted that in Harding's Cheddar system "He has simplified the process of manufacture and helped to reduce it more to a science".[16] As a result of Willard's visit, cheddar cheese production and its popularity increased enormously in the United States.

Joseph Harding's son Henry Harding was responsible for introducing cheddar cheese production to Australia.[16]

As a result of Harding's willingness to share his knowledge with foreign cheesemakers, later makers of cheddar from the West of England faced severe competition, in particular from intensive production in North America.

Educational ideas แก้

Harding was a strong believer in the promotion of education and proposed the establishment of a Dairy College in the West of England which was realised in the form of the Somerset Agriculture College.

Literary capabilities and poetry แก้

According to one early twentieth-century account: "although in the [account of the Victoria County History of Somerset (see earlier)] we do not see by any means the whole side of his character. His literary capabilities were of no mean order, and some of his poetry and prose shows great talent, while his work for his church was also noteworthy.[7]

On example of Joseph Harding's poetry is cited below. This is a response to Rev. Samuel Wray, who had sent Harding a poem to thank him for sending a hare and Cheddar cheese for Christmas:

My dear Mr. Wary, I answer your lay On behalf of myself and my wife Your poetical lore has raked up my store Long hid' neath the business of life When you speak of our God in sending you here And thank Him for blessings into the third year. You should not have mentioned the cheese and the game They do not deserve among presents a name But I'm pleased that the hare, the "unparadised hare" Stood so high in your own estimation, For though it was sweet, and perhaps a treat, I did not expect its translation. His honours were great, as ordained by fate, For just in the midst of its run With Jerry on trail, just close to its tail She died by a short from my gun. And this was not all, for after her fall 'Twas served on your table so good Supplying two dinners for famishing sinners. At last was angelical food.[7]

Publications แก้

  • "The Practical Aspects of Cheesemaking", The Ayrshire Advertiser (c.1859)[11]
  • "Recent Improvements in Dairy Practice", Royal Agricultural Society of England Journal (1860)[17]
  • "Cheese making in Small Dairies", Bath and West and Southern Counties Journal (1868)

See also แก้

References แก้

  1. Joseph Harding, Cheddar Cheese-Maker written by Ann Heeley and Mary Vidal. Published by the Friends of the Abbey Barn, Glastonbury 1996
  2. The Evolution of the English Farm, Mabel Elizabeth Christie, Allen and Unwin, 1952, page 316
  3. 3.0 3.1 History of Cheddar – Cheddar Cheese – Icons of England เก็บถาวร 27 กันยายน 2007 ที่ เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน
  4. Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, By Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 1866-7 volume 1, Aberdeen
  5. History of British Agriculture, 1846–1914: 1846 – 1914 – Page 145 by Christabel Susan Lowry Orwin, Edith Holt Whetham – Agriculture – 1964
  6. Royal, Nicholas John. Harding Family. A Short History and Narrative Pedigree. From 1480 to the Present day. Published Privately 1970
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Harding Family, J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Bristol, probably by R.D. Reid March 1917
  8. Henzell, Ted (2007-01-01). Australian Agriculture: Its History and Challenges (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Csiro Publishing. ISBN 9780643993426.
  9. www.biffbangpow.com. "Gourmet Britain / Food Encyclopedia / Harding, Joseph". www.gourmetbritain.com. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2016-05-14.
  10. American Notes and Queries, 1950, page 159
  11. 11.0 11.1 Cheke, Valerie Essex (1959-01-01). The story of cheese-making in Britain (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Routledge & K. Paul.
  12. Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year 1864, page 232, volume 14 1865, Albany
  13. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1866, United States Dept. of Agriculture
  14. The Complete Grazier and Farmers' and Cattle-Breeders' Assistant forming a compendium of husbandry originally written by William Youatt. Fifteenth edition. Revised by William E Bear. Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1908
  15. The English Dairy Farmer 1500–1900, George Edwin Fussell, Frank Cass and Company, London, 1966, page 230
  16. 16.0 16.1 From Artisans to "Factories": The Interpenetration of Craft and Industry in English Cheese-Making 1650–1950, by Richard Blundel and Angela Tregear, Enterprise and Society, 17 October 2006
  17. England, Royal Agricultural Society of (1860-01-01). "Recent Improvements in Dairy Practice". The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.