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Thomas Graham was born
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He is the eldest of a family of seven
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He is the son of a prosperous manufacturer.
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He was placed under Dr. Angus at the English preparatory school in Glasgow
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He was transfered to the high school.
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Graham entered the University of Glasgow in 1819, at the age of fourteen
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He entered Glasgow University
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Received the M.A. at Glasgow in 1826,
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He was strongly influenced by the chemistry lectures of Thomas Thomson
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Most of the observations on this subject were made by Johann Dobereiner
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He discovered Graham's Law (the diffusion rate of gases and also found that the relative rates of the effusion of gases are comparable to the diffusion rates.)
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He succeeded Alexander Ure as professor of chemistry at Anderson’s College
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In his final paper he described palladium hydride, the first known instance of a solid compound formed from a metal and a gas.
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Graham was elected a fellow of the Royal Society
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In 1841 he participated in the founding of the Chemical Society
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Graham published his well-known text-book, ‘Elements of Chemistry
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In 1846 he became the first president of the Cavendish Society
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He was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Society
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Grahams method of purifying the blood of patients with kidney failure is still used in hospitals today.
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He is credited with coming up with the idea of dialysis.
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Thomas Graham dies.
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He was never married
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A bronze statue of Graham was placed in George Square, Glasgow
