Professor Richard Hill NorrisFRSE FRSGS (1830-1916) was a British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer.[1] From the 1880s he began microscopic photography of blood corpuscles and was a pioneer of microphotography. In 1856 he invented the dry collodion photographic plate.[2]
Blood corpuscles of a frogDiagrams of blood corpuscles based on early microphotography
Norris studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, developing an early interest in microphotography; mainly taking pictures of frogs' blood. In 1856 he invented the first dry collodion photographic plate, during 1858 founding the Patent Dry Collodion Plate Company in Birmingham - one of the first commercial producers of photographic materials in the world.[2]
From 1862 to 1891 he was Professor of Physiology at Queens College in Birmingham.[2]
Sometime within April 1882 he complained to The Lancet, stating Giulio Bizzozero had plagiarised pieces of his work.
He was still patenting photographic processes in 1888, By December 1890 having gone into partnership with Harold William Southall of Edgbaston, founding the Birmingham Dry Collodion Plate and Film Company; In concurrence constructing a sizable factory within Yardley, Birmingham which initiated production in 1893. However, this company failed and was liquidated in 1895.
Norris was also involved in microscopic studies of metals heating and cooling together with George Gore at the Institute of Scientific Research in Birmingham.
In 1852 he was married to Ann (1827-1901). Their son Richard Hill Norris (1853-1919) was also a doctor;[4] Other sons included Arthur Kingsley Norris and Benjamin Stuart Norris. His brother was Joseph Norris, Victorian photographer.
Publicationsedit
On Stasis of Blood and Exudation (1862)
On the Laws and Principles Concerned in the Aggregation of Blood Corpuscles (1869)
On the Extrusion of the Morphological Elements of the Blood (1871)
On the Physical Principles Concerned in the Passage of Blood Corpuscles through the Walls of the Vessels (1871)
The Physiology and Pathology of the Blood (1882)
Referencesedit
^Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
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