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DR. JOHN CANNELL CAIN, whose death occurred suddenly at his residence in Brondesbury Park on Monday morning, January 31, at the early age of forty-nine, was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Cain, of Stubbins, Lancashire, and was born on September 28, 1871, at Edenfield, near Manchester. He received his education at the Victoria University (Owens College) and at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, obtaining the B.Sc. in the Honours school at Owens in 1892, and the D.Sc. at Tübingen in 1893. It was after he had migrated from Tübingen to Heidelberg in the autumn of 1893 that the writer of this notice first met him. He returned to Owens College for a short time in 1894, where he worked with W. A. Bone, but it is evident that at this period he was already feeling drawn towards that field of organic chemistry to which he ultimately devoted his life, for in 1895 he resisted the lure of research in the rapidly developing organic school at Manchester and entered the works of Messrs. Levinstein, Ltd., of Crumpsal Vale, where he remained until 1901. It was during this period of his career that the writer became intimately acquainted with him, for they lived in the same house at Cheetham Hill, the writer working at research at Owens College, and Cain at Crumpsal. Many were the discussions on colour chemistry which were held during the evenings, and it was here that it was decided to write the book which ultimately appeared under the title of “The Synthetic Dyestuffs” in 1905.
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T., J. Dr. J. C. Cain. Nature 106, 765–766 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106765a0
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