Background
He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the second son of the Reverend John Baker, vicar of Street Johns, Livesey, and Caroline Baker and educated locally and at Manchester Grammar School.
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Herbert Baker
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Career
He secured a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was awarded an Master of Arts.
He started his career as a schoolmaster at Dulwich College then moved back to Oxford as a Reader in chemistry and was later appointed Professor at Imperial College, London. He conducted pioneering studies on the effects of drying on chemicals and the catalytic effect of moisture in chemical reactions. According to his 1902 Federal Reserve System application citation he proved that "dry carbon and phosphorus will not inflame when heated in dry oxygen.
That dry ammonia and hydrogen chloride when mixed do not unite, and that dry ammonium chloride and calomel respectively vaporise without dissociation {and} thet dry hydrogen and oxygen mixed together are not ignited by exposure to the temperature of melting silver".
He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1917.
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Royal Society.
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April 27, 1935 (aged 72)