Frank Greenaway was Keeper of Chemistry

Chemistry

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 at the Science Museum

Science Museum (London)

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 in London

London

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, England

England

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. He has authored a number of books and papers on the history of chemistry

History of chemistry

By 1000 BC, ancient civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of the various branches of chemistry. Examples include extracting metals from ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from...

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Frank Greenaway studied Chemistry at Jesus College

Jesus College, Oxford

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, Oxford

University of Oxford

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. He was invalided out of the War

World War II

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 and subsequently taught in Bournemouth

Bournemouth

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, where he met his wife, Miranda (1916–2008). They had four children.

Greenaway lived in Surrey

Surrey

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 for most of his career as a curator

Curator

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 at the Science Museum in London and a leading historian of science

History of science

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, specializing in chemistry. He retired to Reading, Berkshire

Reading, Berkshire

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Selected books

• John Dalton and the Atom, Cornell University Press
  Cornell University Press
  The Cornell University Press, established in 1869 but inactive from 1884 to 1930, was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States.A division of Cornell University, it is housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage....
  
  , 1966. ISBN 978-0801401602.
• Chemical Laboratories and Apparatus to 1850, HMSO, 1966. Part 1 of a 4-part series.
• Chemistry, Science Museum, HMSO, 1968.

Selected papers

• History of Chemistry, Nature
  Nature (journal)
  Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
  
  , 219(5152), pp. 415–416, 1968.
• Platinum Metals in the Development of Analytical Chemistry, Platinum Metals Review
  Platinum Metals Review
  Platinum Metals Review is a quarterly, peer reviewed, scientific journal publishing reports on scientific research on the platinum group metals and related industrial developments. The journal was first published in 1957, and the current Editor is Jonathan J. Butler...
  
  , 18(3), pp. 104–108, July 1974.
• Analytical chemistry in modern society: 200 years of development, Analytical Chemistry
  Analytical Chemistry (journal)
  Analytical Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1929 by the American Chemical Society. It is currently indexed/abstracted in: Chemical Abstracts Service, CABI, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science...
  
  , 48(2), pp. 148a–154a., 1976. .
• A personal encounter with French chemistry: the 1950 French Scientific Instrument Exhibition at the Science Museum, 2001.
• From classical to modern chemistry: the instrumental revolution, Chemistry & Industry, January 6, 2003.