About W. E. S. Turner
Lived 1881 – 1963 (aged 82). W. E. S. Turner was a British engineer, chemist and physicist.
William Ernest Stephen Turner (22 September 1881 – 27 October 1963) was a British chemist and pioneer of scientific glass technology.
Biography Turner was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire on 22 September 1881. He went to King Edward VI Grammar School, Five Ways, Birmingham, and achieved a BSc (1902) and MSc (1904) in chemistry at the University of Birmingham. The same year, he established a collection of historical and modern glass which became the Turner Museum of Glass from his extensive collection, and the wedding dress is on display there.
He died on 27 October 1963. for application of science to the glass industry, and in 1938 was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was the only person outside Germany to receive the Otto Schott Medal.
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British chemist (1881-1963)
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W. E. S. Turner was born on 22 September 1881 in Wednesbury.
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W. E. S. Turner died on 27 October 1963.
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W. E. S. Turner was an engineer, chemist and physicist.
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W. E. S. Turner was British.
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