Nationality English Name George Liveing | Died 1924, Cambridge Awards Davy Medal | |
Occupation Chemist, spectroscopist | ||
George Downing Liveing FRS (21 December 1827 – 29 December 1924) was an English chemist and spectroscopist.
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Early life
He was born in Nayland, Suffolk, the eldest son of Dr. Edward Liveing (1795–1843) and Catherine Mary Downing (1798-1872).
Academic career
Liveing educated at St John's College, Cambridge, earning a BA in 1850 and a MA in 1853. Later on his life he was awarded with a Honorary ScD in 1908. In 1853 St John's College founded for him a College Lectureship in Chemistry and built for his use a Chemical Laboratory behind New Court. He was a Fellow of the college and then in 1911 elected as its President, a position that held until his death in 1924. From 1860 to 1880 joined Military College, Sandhurst as Professor of Chemistry. Later returned to his old position as Professor of Chemistry to the Cambridge University from 1880 to 1908. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. He won the Davy Medal in 1901 "for his contributions to spectroscopy".
Personal life
Liveing married in 1860 Catherine Ingram. He died on Boxing Day 1924, aged 97, as the result of being knocked down by a cyclist while walking to his laboratory. He was buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, next to his late, who had died in 1888.