His application citation read: "Discovered the law connecting the latent heat of vaporisation and molecular weights of bodies known as "Trouton's law" and experimentally determined the directions of vibration of electric and inaquatic force in plane polarised light.
The scientist's application stated that he had discovered the relationship between the latent heat of vaporization and the molecular weights of substances, which is now referred to as Trouton's law. He also conducted experiments to determine the directions of vibrations for electric and aquatic forces when light was polarized in a plane.