In 2014 the University of Edinburgh renamed a number of the streets on Kings Buildings campus to honour the scientists who worked there including Sir James Dewar, Thomas Bayes, David Brewster, James Hutton, genetics pioneer Charlotte Auerbach and X-ray visionary Marion Ross.
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The British Government and the Commonwealth governments adopted cordite instead, which had been developed by Sir Frederick Abel and Sir James Dewar of the United Kingdom in 1889 . The original Cordite Mk I consisted of 58 % nitroglycerin, 37 % guncotton, and 5.0 % petroleum jelly.
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Abel, Sir James Dewar and W Kellner, who was also on the committee, developed and jointly patented ( Nos 5, 614 and 11, 664 in the names of Abel and Dewar ) in 1889 a new ballistite-like propellant consisting of 58 % nitroglycerine, by weight, 37 % guncotton ( nitrocellulose ) and 5 % petroleum jelly.
