Andrews, THOMAS

Andrews, THOMAS, physicist, was born in Belfast, 19th December 1813, and studied chemistry and medicine at Glasgow, Paris, Edinburgh, and Dublin. He practised as a physician at Belfast, where in 1849 he was appointed professor of chemistry in the Queen's College. F.R.S. and LL.D., he resigned his chair in 1879, and died 26th November 1885. His brilliant researches were more of a physical than of a chemical nature, being on the heat of combination of various classes of substances, on the nature of ozone, on the conducting power for heat of the various gases, and on the continuity of the liquid and gaseous states of matter. See his Scientific Papers, edited, with a memoir, by Profs. Tait and Crum Brown (1889).