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TENNANT, SMITHSON (1761-1815)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TENNANT, See also:SMITHSON (1761-1815) , See also:English chemist, was See also:born at See also:Selby, See also:Yorkshire, on the 3oth of See also:November 1761. He began to study See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh in 1781, but See also:lima few months moved to See also:Cambridge, where he devoted himself to See also:botany and See also:chemistry. He graduated M.D. at Cambridge in 179o, and about the same See also:time See also:purchased an See also:estate near See also:Cheddar, where he carried out agricultural experiments. He was appointed See also:professor of chemistry at Cambridge in 1813, but lived See also:TENNENT to deliver only one course of lectures, being killed near See also:Boulogne on the 22nd of See also:February 1815 by the fall of a See also:bridge over which he was See also:riding. He was a See also:man of more promise than performance, and his See also:chief achievement was the See also:discovery of the elements See also:iridium and See also:osmium, which he found in the residues from the See also:solution of See also:platinum ores (1804). He also contributed to the See also:proof of the identity of See also:diamond and See also:charcoal.

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