abstract:Edward Turner FRS FRSE (24 June 1798–12 February 1837) was a Jamaican born, British chemist, known for his work on atomic weights, and as a populariser of the atomic theory of Dalton. He was the author of a popular Chemistry textbook that was the first to incorporate chemical symbols and formulae as well as organic chemistry.
Cached away for over a century, the world's first color moving pictures have been shown for the first time yesterday, according to the National Media Museum in the UK. The celluloid, shot by inventor Edward Raymond Turner in 1899, was actually in black and white and it was only through a curator's research that its colorful significance was also unearthed.
An initiative by then Turner Broadcasting (parent company of CNN) employee, Edward Boateng, (now Managing Director of Global Media Alliance and senior advisor to Turner Broadcasting System), the CNN African Journalist of the Year was launched in 1995 to primarily encourage, promote and recognise excellence in African journalism.