James Dewar

Sir James Dewar
Sir James Dewar FRS
Born	20 September 1842(1842-09-20) Kincardine-on-Forth, Scotland
Died	27 Mairch 1923(1923-03-27) (aged 80) Lunnon, Ingland
Naitionality	Scots / Breetish
Alma mater	Varsity o Edinburgh
Kent for	Liquid oxygen Liquid hydrogen
Awairds	Hodgkins gowd medal (Smithsonian Institution) Lavoisier Medal (French Academy o Sciences) Albert Medal (Ryal Society o Airts) Rumford Medal (1894) Franklin Medal (1919)
Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics Chemistry
Institutions	Ryal Institution Varsity o Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Laird Playfair

Sir James Dewar FRS (20 September 1842 – 27 Mairch 1923) wis a Scots chemist an pheesicist. He is probably best-kent the day for his invention o the Dewar flask, which he uised in conjunction wi extensive research intae the liquefaction o gases.

A plaque o Dewar bi Sir Bertram Mackennal (in 1925) wis pit up in the Ryal Institution (RI) London, whaur Dewar had gi'en lecturs tae RI memmers, in 1904. An eemage o the event wis paintit bi Henry Jamyn Brooks an hings in the RI, wha hae forby yin o Dewar's origeenal flasks.

Sir James Dewar lectur at Ryal Insitution, 1904 (Henry Jamyn Brooks)

oreeginal Dewar Flask, at Ryal Institution, London

Plaque o James Dewar at the Ryal Institution, London