| Authorised form of name | Voelcker; John Christopher Augustus (1822 - 1884) |
| Dates | 1822 - 1884 |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany |
| Date of birth | 24 September 1822 |
| Place of death | 39 Argyll Road, Kensington |
| Date of death | 05 December 1884 |
| Research field | Agricultural chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Gottingen; Giessen. PhD (Gottingen)
Career:
Assistant to Gerrit Jan Mulder of Utrecht; went to Edinburgh (1847); Professor of Chemistry, Royal Agricultural Society (1849); moved to London and established a private laboratory in Salisbury Square (1863)
Memberships:
FCS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1870 |
| Relationships | Son of Frederick Adolphus Voelcker of Frankfurt; married (1852) Susannah Wilhelm |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1884-1885 vol 38 pp xviii-xxiii signed by J H G |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/57471044 |
| Code | NA1620 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1870/15 | Voelcker, John Christopher Augustus: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/8/166bis | Referee's report by John Christopher Augustus Voelcker, on a paper 'Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land.—Part I' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert | 15 August 1879 |
| RR/9/156 | Referee's report by John Christopher Augustus Voelcker, on a paper 'Supplement to former paper, entitled—"Experimental inquiry into the composition of some of the animals fed and slaughtered as human food.”—Composition of the ash of the entire animals, and of certain separated parts' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert | 23 July 1883 |