Alexander Lauder (chemist)
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Alexander Lauder FRSE FIC (1870–1943) was a Scottish agricultural chemist.
Life
He was born in Greenock in 1870. He studied at the Andersonian College in Glasgow under Professor William Dittmar then at the University of Edinburgh.
He began as an assistant lecturer at University College Bangor in Wales. He then returned to the University of Edinburgh to lecture in Agricultural Chemistry, also lecturing at the East of Scotland College of Agriculture. During this period he lived at 13 George Square in Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12 In 1905 Lauder obtained a DSc from the University of Edinburgh.{{Cite thesis |last=Lauder |first=Alexander |date=1905 |title=Part I. The alkaloids of corydalis cava : Part II. On the relation between the absorption spectra & the chemical structure of corydaline, berberine, and other alkaloids |url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/28404 |language=en}}
In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Johnston Dobbie, Alexander Crum Brown, Sir James Walker and Arthur Pillans Laurie. He served as the Society’s Secretary 1923 to 1928.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=15 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}
He died in Greenock on 11 November 1943.Journal of the Chemical Society: December 1943
Publications
- Chemistry and Agriculture (1933)
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