| LC control no. | n 83826406 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Warington, Robert, 1838-1907 |
| Variant(s) | Warington, R. (Robert), 1838-1907 Warington, Robert, Jr., 1838-1907 |
| Associated country | England |
| Associated place | Cirencester (England) Oxford (England) |
| Birth date | 1838-08-22 |
| Death date | 1907-03-20 |
| Place of birth | Harpenden (England) |
| Field of activity | Agricultural chemistry Rural development |
| Affiliation | Rothamsted Experimental Station Royal Agricultural College (Great Britain) Rothamsted Experimental Station Lawes's Millwall laboratory University of Oxford |
| Profession or occupation | Agricultural chemists College teachers University and college faculty members |
| Found in | LCCN 6-1834: Hall, D. The book of the Rothamsted experiments, 1905 (hdg.: Warington, Robert, 1838-1907; variant: R. Warington) LC database, July 10, 2012 (hdg.: Warington, Robert, 1838-1907; usage: Robert Warington, R. Warington) Wikipedia, viewed March 17, 2022: Robert Warington (agricultural chemist, born 1838) (Robert Warington, Jr. FCS FRS (22 August 1838, Spitalfields, London-20 March 1907, Harpenden) was an English agricultural chemist, known for his research and publications on the chemistry of phosphates and nitrates in agricultural soils. Robert Warington Jr. was the eldest son and second child of the chemist Robert Warington, FRS. After studying chemistry in his father's laboratory and attending lectures by Faraday, Brande, and Hofmann, Robert Warington Jr. became in 1859 an unpaid assistant to Sir John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted Experimental Station at Harpenden. Warington was from 1862 to 1867 an assistant to the Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. He was from 1876 to 1891 an investigator at Rothamsted Experimental Stations. In 1891 Warington was appointed by the committee for the Lawes Agricultural Trust to give six lecture in the United States before the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Stations at Washington, D.C. from August 12 to 18, 1891. When he returned to England, he did research at Lawes's Millwall laboratory. He was appointed in 1894 as an examiner in agriculture for the science and art department of the University of Oxford and was for three years, from 1894 to 1897, the Sibthorpian professor of rural economy at the University of Oxford) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warington_(agricultural_chemist,_born_1838)> |
| Associated language | eng |
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