Open AccessWilliam Prout
Author(s) -
Jaime Wisniak
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
educación química
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1870-8404
pISSN - 0187-893X
DOI - 10.1016/j.eq.2015.04.011
Subject(s) - urinary system , digestion (alchemy) , urine , integer (computer science) , chemistry , physiology , biochemistry , medicine , chromatography , computer science , programming language
William Prout (1785-1850) a multifaceted English physician, conducted important research in the areas of physiology, meteorology, and chemistry; he studied the processes of digestion, respiration, and blood formation, the urinary system, urine and urinary calculi, iden- tified the presence of HCl in the gastric fluid, and proposed the theory that the atomic weight of an element is an integer multiple of the atomic weight of hydrogen (Prout's hypothesis)