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Sir William Perkin A century ago a young English chemistry student made a mauve-colored dye from coal tar, thus launching one of the central themes of the modern chemical industry By John Read ...

In 1856, at the age of 18, the English chemist William Henry Perkin was looking ... By dipping a piece of silk into it, Perkin discovered its dyeing properties, creating the first synthetic dye: ...

August von Hofmann and his student William Perkin postulated that it might ... which he called “Aniline Purple,” and thus founded the synthetic dye industry. Along with other examples, such ...

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 ...

Before William Henry Perkin invented Mauve dye in 1856, there were no synthetic dyes available. But the only natural source of purple dye is a species of predatory sea snail called the Murex snail.

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 ... Professor Brian Cox describes the work of William Perkin as he attempted to find a way to make synthetic quinine to treat malaria.