Article ID: CBB729122087

John Fletcher Moulton and the transforming aftermath of the chemists’ war (2017)

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In 1917, Richard Pilcher, registrar and secretary of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, used the phrase, ‘the chemists’ war’ to describe the First World War [R. B. Pilcher, ‘Chemistry in Wartime’, The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 9 (1917), 4.]. Pitcher’s phrase was to prove prophetic in another way because the war would transform dramatically the working and organisation of the British chemical industry. With his background in mathematics, the legal profession and as an MP, John Fletcher Moulton (Baron Moulton of Bank; 1844–1921) was an unlikely person to play a crucial role in both the war effort and the post-war transformation, but the analytical ability and organisational skills developed from his patent court cases proved more important than scientific and technical knowledge.

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Authors & Contributors
Reed, Peter
Travis, Anthony S.
Bonini Viana, Hélio Elael
Fonteneau, Virginie
Gooday, Graeme J. N.
Guagnini, Anna
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Acta Historiae Rerum Naturalium necnon Technicarum
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Picard
Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in conjunction with the Hexagon Press
Stichting Historie der Techniek
Walburg Pers
Concepts
Chemical industry
Chemistry
Chemical engineering
World War I
Dyes
Science and war; science and the military
People
Moulton, John Fletcher
De La Rue, Warren
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Marconi, Guglielmo
Midgley, Thomas
Tillmanns, Heinrich
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
France
Germany
Netherlands
United States
Spain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Institut de Chimie de Paris
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