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He was born in Partickhill, Glasgow on 20 February 1844, the son of John Buchanan of Dowanhill, a relatively affluent landowner.
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He was born in Partickhill, Glasgow on 20 February 1844, the son of John Buchanan of Dowanhill, a relatively affluent landowner.
He attended Glasgow High School and then studied Chemistry at Glasgow University. He graduated in 1863.
He was an important part of the Challenger Expedition. He also spent time in Europe studying at the universities of Marburg, Leipzig, Bonn and Paris. His first role was as an assistant to Professor Alexander Crum Brown at Edinburgh University.
In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Alexander Crum Brown.
He was then living at the highly prestigious address of 10 Moray Place in Edinburgh"s West End. The Society awarded him their Keith Prize for 1885 to 1887.
In 1873 he was chosen as the official chemist on the three year Challenger Expedition. His ideas on ocean currents contradicted the long-established views laid down by Humboldt.
In 1887 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
His address was then 10 Moray Place, a huge Victorian townhouse on the Moray Estate in the west end of Edinburgh. From 1889 until 1903 he lectured in Geography at Cambridge University. He died in London on 16 October 1925, aged 81.
Buchananhalvøya in Spitzbergen is named after Buchanan
The glacier Buchananisen in Svalbard is named after Buchanan.
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