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Authorised form of nameMarcet; William (1828 - 1900)
Dates1828 - 1900
Place of birthGeneva, Switzerland
Date of birth13 May 1828
Date of death04/03/1900
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
MD (1850, Edinburgh)
Career:
Assistant Physician, Westminster Hospital (1853); Lecturer on Chemistry and Forensic Medicine, Medical College, Westminster Hospital; Assistant Physician, Brompton Hospital (1867)
Memberships:
FRMS (President 1888-1889)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/06/1857
RelationshipsParents: Francis Marcet (FRS 1836) and Aimée Amélie Bouthillier de Beaumont (1807-1869)
Married: Constance Rigaud
Children: Marguerite Daisy Marcet (1857-1888); Alexandre Marcet (1859-1903)
Other relatives: grandfather Alexander Marcet (FRS 1808), grandmother Jane Marcet
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 165-169, plate, signed by E A S
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/33548261
CodeNA7602
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/2/449Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet [Fellow of the Royal Society]4 July 1888
NLB/4/158Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet26 February 1890
NLB/4/192Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet7 March 1890
NLB/4/246Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society24 March 1890
NLB/2/931Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society2 January 1889
NLB/3/298Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1889
NLB/3/865Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company29 October 1889
NLB/3/425Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1889
NLB/3/600Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Garden22 July 1889
NLB/3/741Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society27 September 1889
NLB/3/703Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society, Malagny, Versoix, Geneva20 September 1889
NLB/6/507Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Clay & Sons, Ave Maria Lane, E.C.26 May 1892
NLB/6/503Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1892
NLB/6/810Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1892
NLB/11/393Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society21 June 1895
NLB/11/284Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1895
NLB/12/80Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society6 December 1895
NLB/14/142Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society11 January 1897
NLB/16/741Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [William] Marcet, Flowermead, Princes Road, Wimbledon Park[1 June 1898]
NLB/17/69Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1898
NLB/20/260Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons8 March 1900
RR/3/190Referee's report by Lyon Playfair, on a paper 'On the action of bile upon fats; with additional observations on excretine' by William Marcet13 October 1858
RR/7/110Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry into the constitution of blood and the nutrition of muscular tissue' by William Marcet to the author12 December 1871
RR/10/286Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'A chemical inquiry into the phenomena of human respiration' by William Marcet25 June 1889
RR/5/139Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On a colloid acid, a normal constituent of human urine' by William Marcet7 July 1864
EC/1857/08Marcet, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/402Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1889
NLB/3/623Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [William] Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society, Malagny, Versoix, Genève25 July 1889
NLB/3/885Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr William Marcet, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1889
NLB/14/487Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr William Marcet, [Fellow of the Royal Society]18 March 1897
RR/10/285Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'A chemical inquiry into the phenomena of human respiration' by William Marcet10 June 1889
RR/5/138Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on a paper 'On a colloid acid, a normal constituent of human urine' by William Marcet30 June 1864
RR/2/147Referee's report by Alfred Swaine Taylor, on a paper 'An account of the organic chemical constituents or immediate principles the excrements of man and animals in the healthy state' by William Marcet24 June 1854
PT/49/4Paper, 'An account of the organic chemical constituents or immediate principles of the excrements of man and animals in the healthy state' by W [William] Marcet[1854]
RR/4/159Referee's report by William Sharpey, on a paper 'On the action of bile upon fats; with additional observations on excretine' by William Marcet25 January 1859
RR/2/148Referee's report by George Owen Rees, on a paper 'An account of the organic chemical constituents or immediate principles the excrements of man and animals in the healthy state' by William Marcet6 July 1854
RR/3/186Referee's report by Lyon Playfair, on a paper 'On the immediate principles of human excrements in the healthy state' by William Marcet6 April 1857
RR/3/189Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the action of bile upon fats; with additional observations on excretine' by William Marcet31 July 1858
AP/41/5Unpublished paper, 'On the action of bile upon fats with additional observations on excretine' by W [William] Marcet1858
RR/7/108Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry into the constitution of blood and the nutrition of muscular tissue' by William Marcet2 October 1871
RR/7/109Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry into the constitution of blood and the nutrition of muscular tissue' by William Marcet20 October 1871
AP/53/5Unpublished paper, 'An experimental inquiry into the constitution of blood and the nutrition of muscular tissue' by William Marcet1871
PP/9/2Paper, 'An instrument for the speedy volumetric determination of carbonic acid' by William Marcet1886
PP/9/2/2Diagram, 'Dr Marcet's instrument for the speedy volumetric determination of carbonic acid' by James P Maginnis1886
PP/18/3Paper, 'Researches on the absorption of oxygen and formation of carbonic acid in ordinary human respiration, and in the respiration of air containing an excess of carbonic acid' by William Marcet1891
PP/20/18Paper, 'Contribution to the history of the interchange of pulmonary gases in the respiration of man' by William Marcet1892
PP/22/5Paper, 'The influence of exercise on the interchange of the respiratory gases' by William Marcet1893
RR/3/187Letter from Lyon Playfair, on a paper 'On the immediate principles of human excrements in the healthy state' by William Marcet18 April 1857
RR/3/188Referee's report by John Stenhouse, on a paper 'On the immediate principles of human excrements in the healthy state' by William Marcet15 April 1857
PP/9/2/1Manuscript, 'An instrument for the speedy volumetric determination of carbonic acid' by William Marcet1886
MC/16/218Letter from [William] Marcet, Flowermead, Princes Road, Wimbledon Park, to [Herbert] Rix26 May 1895
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
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