Thomas Charles Hope

Scottish physician and chemist

1766 CE to 1844 CE

Thomas Charles Hope FRSE FRS PRCPE FFPSG (21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) is a Scottish physician and chemist.

He discovers the element strontium, and gives his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at 4°C.

Hope serves as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1815–19), and as vice-president of Royal Society of Edinburgh (1823–33) during the presidencies of Walter Scott and Thomas Makdougall Brisbane.

He founds the chemical prize at Edinburgh.

Charles Darwin is one of Hope's students, and Darwin views his chemistry lectures as highlights in his otherwise largely dull education at Edinburgh University.

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