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Authorised form of nameDumas; Jean Baptiste Andre (1800 - 1884)
Other forms of nameJean-Baptiste
Dates1800 - 1884
NationalityFrench
Place of birthAles, Gard, France
Date of birth14 or 15 July 1800
Place of deathCannes, France
Date of death11 April 1884
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityMemberships:
Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election18/06/1840
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1843
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
Altname from certificate
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1884 vol 37 pp x-xxvii signed by A W Hofmann
References:
Sir Harold Hartley, 'Stanislao Cannizzaro, FRS (1826-1910) and the First International Chemical Conference at Karlsruhe in 1860' in NR 1966 vol 21 pp 56-63
K K Schwarz, 'Faraday and Babbage' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp367-381
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as 14 July 1800
CodeNA7151
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1840/25Dumas, Jean Baptiste Andre: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/5/54Letter from Jean Baptiste Dumas to Louis Pasteurc.1874
MS/743/1/174Testimonial by Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas [on behalf of John Hall Gladstone]nd
IM/001212Dumas, Jean Baptiste Andrend
M/069Dumas, Jean Baptiste Andre1875
IM/005713Dumas, Jean Baptiste Andrend
IM/001213Dumas, Jean Baptiste Andrend
MS/427/405Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. Wharton Jones12 January 1885
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