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Frankland (SIR EDWARD an English chemist)

SIR EDWARD, an English chemist; born in Churchtown, England, in 1825; studied chemistry in the Museum of Practical Geology and in Germany under Bunsen. He made the discovery of the union of organic radicles with metals, announcing in 1850 the preparation of compounds of zinc with methyl and ethyl. From this he deduced the conclusion that an atom of the metal could only attach itself to a definite number of the atoms of other elements, spectrum, from which he concluded that the photosphere of the sun was atmospheric. He also investigated the chemistry of foods. He died in Norway, Aug. 11, 1899.