Distinguished guests from all over the UK descended on London to honour the 150th anniversary of William Perkin's discovery of the first synthetic dye, mauveine. The celebrations were jointly ...

The prize is named after Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), most famous for inventing the first aniline dye, mauveine. He was 18 at the time of the discovery and achieved this in the garden shed of ...

By dipping a piece of silk into it, Perkin discovered its dyeing properties, creating the first synthetic dye: mauveine. It was in 1968, while working for the Midwestern US company 3M, that chemist ...

But in 1856, William Henry Perkins, an 18-year-old chemist stumbled across the first synthetic dye, a purplish color called Mauveine, which was derived from coal tar. This was a major breakthrough ...

While food dyes have existed for centuries, the first synthetic food dye was invented in 1856 by chemist William Henry Perkin. These additives were produced from the by-products of coal processing.

So Perkin had discovered a dye which he called mauveine. Perkin's dye was far superior to anything created by nature, and one that could be mass produced at a fraction of the cost. It quickly ...