Life
Adair Crawford was born near Belfast and studied medicine at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities. He was Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, London, and physician at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He died at Lymington in Hampshire.
It is no coincidence that the titles of his publications usually begin with the word experiments. Crawford let the details of his experiments and their plain results do the talking, and generally refrained from theorizing and over-interpretation. He did maintain the later-discredited phlogiston hypothesis, but wasn't doctrinaire about it.
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