Matthew Forster Heddle blue plaque

St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Matthew Forster Heddle, MD, 1828-1897 Lived here 1871-1897. Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews (1862-1883). Born in Orkney, he studied medicine in Edinburgh and then chemistry and geology at Freiburg in Germany. He devoted much of his time to mineralogy and built up an impressive collection of Sc

ottish minerals using sledge-hammers and dynamite. Part of the collection is held in the University of St. Andrews. He singlehandedly produced a geological map of Sutherland and he was a founder membe

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