| Authorised form of name | Woulfe; Peter (c 1727 - 1803) |
| Dates | c 1727 - 1803 |
| Place of birth | Tiermaclane, outside Ennie, County Clare, Ireland |
| Place of death | London |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Career:
Investigated Cornish tin deposits; was the first to show that the mineral dolomite was not just a mixture of magnesium and clacium carbonates, but a double salt (1779); friend of Joseph Priestley; invented Woulfe's Bottle - a two-necked flask; investigated preparation of mosaic gold (tin sulphide); appointed to a commission along with Richard Kirwan, FRS and Bryan Higgins to examine the claims of Dr Price of Guidford who presented George III with samples of 'gold' that he claimed to have obtained by 'transmutation'
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/02/1767 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1768
Lectures:
Bakerian 1775, 1776, 1777 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Irish Innovators
References:
Douglas McKie, 'Priestley's Laboratory and Library and Other of his Effects' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 114-136 |
| Code | NA758 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1766/20 | Woulfe, Peter: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| CB/1/6/219 | Letter from Peter Woulfe, Paris to Charles Blagden, Gower Street, Bedford Square, London | 26 January 1785 |
| CB/1/6/218 | Letter from Peter Woulfe to Charles Blagden, Gower Street, Bedford Square, London | 19 November 1784 |
| CB/1/6/221 | Letter from Peter Woulfe, Gray's Inn to Charles Blagden, at Mr Ramsden's , Mathematical Instrument Maker, Piccadilly | [late 18th century] |
| CB/1/6/220 | Letter from Peter Woulfe, Paris to Charles Blagden, 30 Devonshire Street, Queen's Square, London | [late 18th century] |
| MS/859/1 | Letters, bills and chemical notes by Peter Woulfe | 1797-1798 |
| NLB/61/721 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Gordon P. G. Hills Esquire; Fircroft, Cookham Dean, Berks | 17 October 1921 |
| NLB/61/707 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Gordon P. G. Hills Esquire; Fircroft, Cookham Dean, Berks | 14 October 1921 |
| L&P/5/218 | Paper, 'The nature of aurum mossaicum' by Peter Woulfe | 1771 |
| L&P/8/93 | Letter, 'Experiments on mixing gold with tin' from Stanesby Alchorne to Peter Woulfe | 25 March 1784 |
| L&P/6/83 | Paper, 'Of a new colouring substance from the island of Amsterdam in the South Seas' by Peter Woulfe | 1775 |
| L&P/8/93a | Letter, 'Of sassafras' from Thomas Willis to Peter Woulfe | 23 April 1784 |
| L&P/8/57/2 | Plate, 'Apparatus for experiment' by Peter Woulfe | 1784 |
| L&P/8/57 | Paper, 'A new method of making nitrous ether' by Peter Woulfe | 1784 |
| L&P/7/66 | Paper, 'Experiments on some crystal substances' by Peter Woulfe | 1778 |
| L&P/8/57/1 | Paper, 'A new method of making nitrous ether' by Peter Woulfe | 1784 |
| CB/1/6/217 | Letter from Peter Woulfe, Paris to Charles Blagden, King's Road, Gray's Inn, London | 15 July 1784 |
| L&P/6/188 | Paper, 'Experiments made to ascertain the nature of some mineral bodies' by Peter Woulfe | 1776 |
| L&P/6/187 | Letter, 'Introduction to paper, 'Experiments made to ascertain the nature of some mineral bodies'' from Peter Woulfe to unknown recipient | 25 April 1776 |