James Dewar was a Scottish chemist born on September 20, 1842. He was the first to discover that gases can turn to liquid at extremely low temperatures, and his name is immortalized in the Dewar flask, an insulating storage vessel.
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💰 Net worth: $5 Million (2024)
About
Scottish Chemist who was the first do discover that gases can turn to liquid at extremely low temperatures. The Dewar flask, an insulating storage vessel, is named after him.
Before Fame
He began research at Cambridge University in England.
Trivia
Not limiting himself to theory, he actually built a practical device that yielded significant amounts of liquid oxygen to prove his hypothesis.
Family Life
He spent his teenage years an orphan, losing both his parents at age 15.
Associated With
For his pioneering research, he was one of the first recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, awarded to Scientists of distinction. Guglielmo Marconi won it the year before James did.