Henry Enfield Roscoe

Peter J.T. Morris took a chemistry degree at Oxford and then a D.Phil. on the development of synthetic rubber by the German combine IG Farben. After working in the History of Chemistry Research Group at the Open University with Colin Russell and at the Centre for the History of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania with Arnold Thackray, he oversaw the chemistry collections at the Science Museum in London for 24 years before retiring in 2015. He was given the Edelstein Award of the American Chemical Society in 2006 and the Wheeler Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry's Historical Group in 2013. Peter Reed gained a BSc degree at the University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Leicester. He was Head of Chemistry at the Grammar School, Henley on Thames, before spending twenty-three years working for the museums in Liverpool. He retired in 1998 as Head of the Development Office for National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside, and thenundertook consultancy work for the Canadian company ARIUS-3D, the European Commission and EUCLID (Liverpool), and was project manager for the Carpet Museum in Kidderminster.

• Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgements Abbreviations Used1. Who Was Henry Enfield Roscoe?2. Of Lancastrian Stock and the Formative Years3. Finding His Niche4. Seeing the Light5. From Instability to Stability6. Creating a Civic University7. Flying the Flag for Chemistry in Cottonopolis8. Academia Driving Economic Progress9. Securing Britain's Economic Future10. A Chemist in the House11. An Active Retirement12. Roscoe's LegacyBibliography of Henry E. Roscoe's PublicationsBibliography Index

Arguably, Sir Henry Roscoe wrote the most entertaining chemists' autobiography ever published. Now, in this important and very readable biography, the authors peer behind the details of the autobiography to reveal hidden details of the life of this Victorian inorganic chemist, writer, educationist, Anglo-German enthusiast, politician, and catalyst of the later scientific industrialisation of Manchester. - William Brock, former Director of the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester