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Adair Crawford

English physician and chemist

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research on alkaline-earth metals

  • periodic table
    In alkaline-earth metal: History

    …London chemists William Cruickshank and Adair Crawford in 1789 on examining a mineral (strontium carbonate) found in a lead mine at Strontian in Argyllshire, Scotland. Beryllia (beryllium oxide) was extracted from the mineral beryl and recognized as an earth by the French analytical chemist Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin in 1798. Though at…

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