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Authorised form of nameAttfield; John (1835 - 1911)
Dates1835 - 1911
Place of birthNear Barnet, Hertfordshire
Date of birth28 August 1835
Place of deathAshlands, Watford
Date of death18/03/1911
OccupationPharmacist
Research fieldChemistry
Pharmacy
ActivityEducation:
School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Society. PhD (1862, Tubingen)
Career:
Apprenticed to William Frederick Smith, pharmacist, of Walworth (aged 14); Assistant to John Stenhouse (FRS 1848), at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1854); Director of the Educational Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society, London (1862); Professor of Practical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Society; retired (1896)
Memberships:
FCS (1862); Pharmaceutical Society (Corresponding); Society of Pharmacy, Paris (Corresponding);
Society of Pharmacy of Victoria (Honorary); American Pharmaceutical Association (Honorary)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1880
RelationshipsSon of John Atfield, surveyor, of Whetstone
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1911-1912 vol 86 pp xliv-xlvi signed by A C
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/6616333
CodeNA6041
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/14/42Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Attfield, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1896
RR/4/6Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the spectrum of carbon' by John Attfield25 June 1862
NLB/17/743Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Attfield, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1898
NLB/18/15Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Attfield, Fellow of the Royal Society 22 December 1898
MC/27/61Letter from [Stanley Ernest] Carr, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, W, to The Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W13 April 1912
RR/4/5Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the spectrum of carbon' by John Attfield1 July 1862
EC/1880/04Attfield, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000154Attfield, John16 February 1894
PT/64/9Paper, 'On the spectrum of carbon' by John Attfield[1862]
MC/12/55Letter from John Attfield, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society5 June 1880
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
MC/16/25Letter from John Attfield, Ashlands, Watford, to John Evans, Treasurer of the Royal Society22 March 1893
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/32/11Letter from E.M Arnold, Ashlands, Watford, Herts, to The Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W3 September 1917
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