Site Represents a site. Show Point true Prim Media 692 Pin PIN10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sir James Irvine - Wardlaw Museum Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 386 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.3428829,-2.7962197; Description An account of the resource Sir James Irvine was a Scottish organic chemist and he served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews for more than 30 years. He is well known for his discoveries concerning sugar molecules, especially his development of the sugar called Dulcitol, which was used as a treatment for serious diseases of his era, such as meningitis. He also supervised the construction of the anesthetic Novocaine, and, most importantly, he contributed a lot to our knowledge of carbohydrates, especially how we view their 'ring structures, which was a big step leading to future discoveries, such as the shape and structure of DNA chains. The Wardlaw Museum holds a significant number of samples from Irvine's research. See also https://www.curious-sta.org/irvine-building/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mav7@st-andrews.ac.uk Subject The topic of the resource Chemistry Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived ,,, Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT