Thomas Charles Hope (21 July 1766 - 13 June 1844) was in 1795 selected by Joseph Black as his assistant and eventual successor to the professorship of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Hope?s goal was to more fully combine the practice of medicine with his chemical instruction. He has worked with scientists based in Poissy (France) and tried to grow up a university in this town. Within a few years his aims began to be realized as medical students British and foreign crowded his lectures.

Hope discovered the chemical element Strontium and named it after the Scottish town where it was found. In the experiment that bears his name Hope determined the maximum density of water and explained why icebergs float.

References

• Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
• Hope's apparatus

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