author
Henry Paul Talbot
1864–1927
A longtime MIT chemist and teacher, he helped build the institute's reputation for serious laboratory science. He was also a widely used textbook author whose clear approach shaped chemistry teaching for generations of students.
1 Audiobook
An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes
by Henry Paul Talbot
About the author
Born in Boston on May 15, 1864, Henry Paul Talbot studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later earned a doctorate in Leipzig. He returned to MIT and spent most of his career there, serving as a professor and eventually leading the chemistry department.
Talbot is remembered as one of the people who helped strengthen MIT's standing in both chemical research and teaching. Beyond the lab and classroom, he also took on important academic leadership roles, including service connected to student affairs later in his career.
He wrote influential chemistry textbooks, especially in analytical chemistry, that were used widely in American science education. Talbot died on June 18, 1927, but his impact lived on through the students he taught and the standards he helped set for chemistry at MIT.