page_title: Mason Science College
section_title: Academics and alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Mason Science College / Academics and alumni
context_page_description: Mason Science College was a university college in Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of Birmingham University. Founded in 1875 by industrialist and philanthropist Sir Josiah Mason, the college was incorporated into the University of Birmingham in 1900. Two students of the college, Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin, later went on to become Prime Ministers of the UK.
context_section_description: Notable academics and alumni of the college include:
  Edward Arber, academic and writer
  Francis William Aston, chemist and physicist, 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister
  Sir Gilbert Barling, 1st Baronet, physician
  John Belling, cytogeneticist who developed the iron-acetocarmine staining technique which is used in the study of chromosomes
  Sir Nathan Bodington, Professor of classics
  Adrian John Brown, FRS, pioneer in the study of enzyme kinetics
  Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, British-Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust
  Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
  Lawrence Crawford (mathematician) FRSE (1867-1951), taught in the college
  Sir Guy Dain, Chairman of the British Medical Association 1943-9 (M.B. medicine)
  Hermann Georg Fiedler, German scholar
  Sir Henry Fowler, locomotive engineer
  Percy F. Frankland, chemist
  Ernest Gold, set up the first operational (military) meteorological service, Deputy Director of the Meteorological Office
  John Berry Haycraft, discovered an anticoagulant created by the leech, which he named hirudin
  Micaiah John Muller Hill, FRS, English mathematician, known for Hill's spherical vortex and Hill's tetrahedra
  Charles William Hobley, pioneering colonial administrator in Kenya
  Frank Horton, Professor of Physics at Royal Holloway College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1939-45
  Henry Eliot Howard, ornithologist
  Arthur Lapworth, FRS, chemist
  Charles Lapworth, FRS, FGS, geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period
  Robert Thomson Leiper, parasitologist and helminthologist
  Lionel Simeon Marks, engineer and one of the pioneers of aeronautics
  Gerald Rusgrove Mills, publisher who established the publishing company Mills & Boon
  John Henry Muirhead, philosopher
  Constance Naden, poet and philosopher
  Charles Talbut Onions, English grammarian and lexicographer and the fourth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
  Kineton Parkes, novelist and art historian
  Sir Leonard Parsons, Professor of Paediatrics, dean of Birmingham medical school, in 1932 the first to use synthetic vitamin C to treat scurvy in children
  Sir Robert Howson Pickard, chemist who did pioneering work in stereochemistry and was Vice Chancellor of the University of London from 1937-1939
  John Henry Poynting, physicist
  Dame Ethel Shakespear, geologist, public servant and philanthropist
  Edward Adolf Sonnenschein,  Classical Scholar and writer on Latin grammar and verse
  F. J. M. Stratton, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge
  Sir William A. Tilden, chemist
  Swale Vincent,  physiologist
  William Whitehead Watts, FRS, geologist
  John Howard Whitehouse, Liberal Member of Parliament
  Sir Bertram Windle, physician
caption: John Henry Poynting
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