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Authorised form of nameJohnson; Percival Norton (1793 - 1866)
Dates1793 - 1866
Date of birth1793
Date of death01 June 1866
OccupationMetallurgical Chemist and Assayer
ActivityMemberships:
FGS; Geological Society of Jena
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/04/1846
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1867-1868 vol 16 pp xxiii-xxv
References:
L F Gilbert, 'W H Wollaston MSS at Cambridge' in NR 1952 vol 9 pp 310-332
CodeNA5162
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002435Johnson, Percival NortonMarch 1983
EC/1846/20Johnson, Percival Norton: certificate of election to the Royal Society
AP/28/12Unpublished letter, 'Description of a process for extracting the palladium which exists in combination with the gold obtained from the Gongo Soco and other mines in the Brazils' from Percival N [Norton] Johnson to the President of the Royal Society11 March 1846
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