John Arthur Phillips
John Arthur Phillips (born February 18, 1822 in Polgooth in Cornwall , † January 5, 1887 in London ) was a British geologist, metallurgist and mining engineer.
Phillips, whose father was temporarily a mining agent in Cornwall, attended a private school in St. Blazey and was an apprentice to a surveyor, but also dealt with experiments on electrolysis and metallurgy, which he partly with friends aan the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in Falmouth (Cornwall) . From 1844 to 1846 he attended the École des Mines in Paris . After two years in coal mining in France, he returned to England in 1848, was a chemist on a government coal supply commission for the Royal Navy and a supervisor in chemical factories, before setting up as a consulting mining engineer and metallurgist in London. In addition, he taught from 1848 to 1850 at an engineering school in Putney (London) and from 1875 to 1877 at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. He traveled extensively through Europe and North Africa, visiting California in 1853, 1865 and 1866. From 1868 to 1877 he built and managed the Widnes Metal Company's factory in Liverpool. After that he was wealthy enough to be able to set up a private business in London.
He held patents in metallurgy and was one of the pioneers in the use of the polarizing microscope in petrography and published on petrography, metallurgy and mining for a wider audience. He published, among other things, about Devonian quartz porphyry from Cornwall (Greenstone, Elwan) and other rocks in Cornwall, variation of the chemical and mineralogical composition of igneous rocks in North Wales, foreign inclusions in granite, about sandstones and the connection between hot springs and gangue rocks (according to observations in California).
In 1872 he became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and in 1881 the Royal Society . He was also a Fellow of the Chemical Society and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers .
He was married in 1850 until his wife's death in 1887 and had a son and a daughter.
Fonts
- A manual of metallurgy, or practical treatise on the chemistry of the metals, JJ Griffin 1852
- Gold-mining and assaying: a scientific guide for Australian emigrants, JJ Griffin 1852
- The mining and metallurgy of gold and silver, London: Spon 1867
- Elements of Metallurgy, JJ Griffin 1874
- Elements of metallurgy. A practical treatise on the art of extracting metals from their ores, London: C. Griffin 1887, 1891
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| SURNAME | Phillips, John Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist, mining engineer and metallurgist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Polgooth |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1887 |
| Place of death | London |