Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as ''acid rain''. This study of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his childhood, education, beliefs, family, interests and influences sheds light on the evolving understanding of sanitary science during the nineteenth century. Born in Glasgow and initially trained for ...