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Prof William Gregory FRCPE FRSE FCS (25 December 1803 – 24 April 1858) was a Scottish physician and chemist. He studied under and translated some of the works of Liebig, the German chemist. Gregory also had interests in mesmerism and phrenology. ==Life== He was the fourth son of James Gregory and Isabella MacLeod, and was born at Edinburgh. After a medical education he graduated at Edinburgh in 1828, and moved into chemistry, studying at Geissen University.〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 In 1831 he introduced a process for making the "muriate of morphia", which came into general use. "Gregory's salt" in terms of modern chemistry was a mixture of morphine hydrochloride and codeine hydrochloride, obtained from opium by use of calcium chloride.〔(André Barbier, ''The Extraction of Opium Alkaloids'' (1950). )〕 In the 1830s he is recorded as living in his father's large townhouse with his brothers at 10 Ainslie Place on the Moray Estate in the western New Town of Edinburgh.〔http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83400519&mode=transcription〕 In 1832 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and served as their Secretary from 1844 to 1858.〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 After studying for some time on the continent he established himself as an extra-academical lecturer on chemistry at Edinburgh. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Andersonian University, Glasgow, and then at the Dublin Medical School, and in 1839 was appointed professor of medicine and chemistry in King's College, Aberdeen. In 1844 he was elected to the chair of chemistry at Edinburgh in succession to his old teacher Thomas Charles Hope. He was a successful expository lecturer, but in his later years suffered much from a disabling disease.〔 Gregory was interested in animal magnetism and mesmerism. He died at his home on Princes Street on 24 April 1858, leaving a widow and one son.〔 He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile.〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Gregory (chemist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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