James Dewar Net Worth

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James Dewar was a Scottish chemist born on September 20, 1842. He was the first to discover that gases can turn to liquid at extremely low temperatures, and his name is immortalized in the Dewar flask, an insulating storage vessel.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day	September 20, 1842
Birth Place	Scotland
Age	177 YEARS OLD
Died On	Mar 27, 1923 (age 80)
Birth Sign	Virgo

💰 Net worth: $5 Million (2024)

About

Scottish Chemist who was the first do discover that gases can turn to liquid at extremely low temperatures. The Dewar flask, an insulating storage vessel, is named after him.

Before Fame

He began research at Cambridge University in England.

Trivia

Not limiting himself to theory, he actually built a practical device that yielded significant amounts of liquid oxygen to prove his hypothesis.

Family Life

He spent his teenage years an orphan, losing both his parents at age 15.

Associated With

For his pioneering research, he was one of the first recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, awarded to Scientists of distinction. Guglielmo Marconi won it the year before James did.

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