Thomas Carnelley

He studied the relationships between the melting and boiling points of the salts of elements and their positions in the periodic table.

He showed scholastic brilliance and received a Bachelor of Science in 1871 with a third position in Third Class Honors in Chemistry.

He studied the vanadates of thallium that led to a Dalton Chemical Scholarship and he worked as a private assistant to Henry Enfield Roscoe in 1872-74 giving lectures in the evening at Owens College.

He studied the reactions of carbon disulfide and alcohol with hot copper catalysts[2] and the synthesis of tolylphenyl.

[3][4] Carnelley helped introduce the German style of chemical research and industrial applications into Britain.

In 1881 he claimed that it was possible to maintain ice at solid phase at temperatures above the normal melting point under pressure.

[1][13] His interest in public hygiene led to his being appointed to a committee to examine the air and smells in the House of Commons in 1886.