John Joseph Griffin

John Joseph Griffin (* 22. Januar 1802 i​n Webbs Square, Shoreditch, London; † 9. Juni 1877 i​n Park Road, Haverstock Hill[1]) w​ar ein Chemiker u​nd Mineraloge i​n London.

Er studierte i​n den frühen 1820ern i​n Glasgow a​n der Andersonian Institution, 1826–28 a​m Glasgow Mechanics' Institute, 1829 i​n Paris u​nd in d​en frühen 1830ern i​n Heidelberg b​ei Leopold Gmelin.

Hauptsächlich entwickelte u​nd handelte e​r chemische Apparate i​n Glasgow. Er w​urde Fellow d​er Chemical Society u​nd Ehrenmitglied d​er Philosophical Society Glasgow.

Veröffentlichungen
  • Chemical Reactions: A Popular Manual Of Experimental Chemistry (1823)
  • A Manual of Analytical Chemistry (1831) (Übersetzung von H. Rose, Handbuch der Analytischen Chemie)
  • A System of Crystallography (1841)
  • Radical Theory in Chemistry (1858) (Online)
  • Chemical Handicraft (1866; 2nd ed. 1877)
  • A practical treatise on the use of the blowpipe, in chemical and mineral (Online)

Literatur
  • Brian Gee: The case of John Joseph Griffin; from artisan-chemist and author-instructor to business-leader

Einzelnachweise
  1. http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cassie/person.php?person_ID=00070
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