John Joseph Griffin
John Joseph Griffin (born January 22, 1802 in Webbs Square, Shoreditch, London , † June 9, 1877 in Park Road, Haverstock Hill) was a chemist and mineralogist in London.
He studied in Glasgow in the early 1820s at the Andersonian Institution, 1826-28 at the Glasgow Mechanics' Institute, 1829 in Paris and in the early 1830s in Heidelberg with Leopold Gmelin .
Mainly he developed and traded chemical apparatus in Glasgow. He became a Fellow of the Chemical Society and an honorary member of the Philosophical Society Glasgow.
Publications
- Chemical Reactions: A Popular Manual Of Experimental Chemistry (1823)
- A Manual of Analytical Chemistry (1831) (translation by 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 )
literature
- Brian Gee: The case of John Joseph Griffin; from artisan-chemist and author-instructor to business-leader
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Griffin, John Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chemist and mineralogist in London |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1877 |
| Place of death | Haverstock Hill, near London |