William Murdoch
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Scottish engineer and inventor (1754-1839)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Chopin his Life
- The population ecology of certain carabid beetles living in marshes and near fresh water
- Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de cynanche tracheali continens
- Chopin
- Brahms
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 70
- Total plays
- 343
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 63,006x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,848x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,579x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,686x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1754-08-21 ) 21 August 1754, Lugar , Cumnock , Ayrshire , Scotland , United Kingdom
- Died
- 15 November 1839 (1839-11-15) (aged 85), Handsworth, nr. Birmingham , England , United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- Scottish
- Awards
- Rumford Medal (1808)
- Fields
- Steam engines , Gas lighting
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Encyclopedic overview
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer.
Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham, England.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Murdoch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.