Authorised form of name | Geoffroy; Claude Joseph (1685 - 1752) |
Surname | Geoffroy |
Forenames | Claude Joseph |
Dates | 1685 - 1752 |
Nationality | French |
Dates and places | Birth: Paris, France (08 August 1685) Death: Paris, France (09 March 1752) |
Activity | Profession: Pharmacist Research Field: Chemistry, botany Education: M Pharm (1703). Studied botany under J P Tournefort (1707) Career: Travelled to the South of France in search of botanical specimens (1704-1705); took over the family pharmacy on the death of his father (1708); Inspector of Pharmacy at the Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Paris; Echevin of Paris (1731) Memberships: Academie Royale des Sciences (1707) |
Royal Society activity | Membership: Fellow Election Date: 9/06/1715 |
Relationships | Son of Matthieu Francois Geoffroy and his wife, Louise de Vaux; brother of Estienne Francois Geoffroy (FRS 1698). Married: 1) Marie-Elisabeth Ruelle; 2) Marie Denis |
Sources | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB; DBF Authority: Birth date from DSB Notes: Proposed by Sir Isaac Newton |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27850975 |
Royal Society code | NA7765 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference number | Title | Date |
CLP/11i/44 | Paper, 'A problem in chimistry. To find ashes which do not contain any particles of iron' by M [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy | [1709?] |
CLP/11i/43 | Paper, 'Experiments made upon metals with the Duke of Orleans his burning-glasse' by M [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy | [1709] |
LBO/24/6 | Copy letter from Claude Joseph Geoffroy, Paris, to the President | 29 September 1737 |
LBO/23/66 | Copy letter from Monsieur Patouillat, Toucy, to Claude Geoffroy | 9 February 1737 |
L&P/1/77 | Letter, 'On soap lees and hard soap' from Claude Joseph Geoffroy to David Hartley | 23 July 1741 |
L&P/2/86 | Letter, 'Of Mrs Stephens medicines' from Claude Joseph Geoffroy to Cromwell Mortimer | 12 June 1750 |
L&P/2/234 | Paper, 'On the effects of vitrum antimonii ceratum' by Claude Joseph Geoffroy | 1751 |
MM/20/10 | Letter from David Hartley to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society | 2 August 1742 |