Mathematician:James Colquhoun Irvine

Mathematician

Scottish organic chemist.

Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from $1921$ until his death.

Worked on the application of methylation techniques to carbohydrates.

Isolated the first methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: 9 May 1877 in Glasgow, Scotland
• Died: 12 June 1952 in St Andrews, Scotland

Publications

• 1911: University of Saint Andrews Five Hundredth Anniversary Memorial Volume (as co-editor with William Carmichael McIntosh and John Edward Aloysius Steggall)
• 1953: Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry