William Nicholson
1753-1815
English chemist who discovered the electrolysis of water. Nicholson was a veritable jack-of-alltrades, working at times as a hydraulic engineer, inventor, translator and sc...
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William Nicholson
1753-1815
British chemist who was the first to use electricity to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen. Using the recently invented Voltaic battery, Nicholson placed electrodes i...
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William Nicholson is a prolific English screenwriter, playwright, and television and film director twice nominated for Oscars: once for his script of Shadowlands, about the late-in-life love of Britis...
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When England knighted William Nicholson in 1936, it was in recognition of his international prominence as a painter of still lifes, lucid and sedate landscapes, and portraits, including such English l...
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