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Authorised form of nameGeoffroy; Claude Joseph (1685 - 1752)
Dates1685 - 1752
NationalityFrench
Place of birthParis, France
Date of birth08 August 1685
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death09 March 1752
OccupationPharmacist
Research fieldChemistry
Botany
ActivityEducation:
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)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1715
RelationshipsSon 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
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; DBF
Authority:
Birth date from DSB
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Isaac Newton
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27850975
CodeNA7765
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EL/P2/19Letter of recommendation for Monsieur [Henri] Pitot to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society2 April 1740
LBO/24/6Copy letter from Claude Joseph Geoffroy, Paris, to the President29 September 1737
LBO/23/66Copy letter from Monsieur Patouillat, Toucy, to Claude Geoffroy9 February 1737
L&P/2/234Paper, 'On the effects of vitrum antimonii ceratum' by Claude Joseph Geoffroy1751
L&P/2/86Letter, 'Of Mrs Stephens medicines' from Claude Joseph Geoffroy to Cromwell Mortimer12 June 1750
EL/P2/23Translation of a letter, from Monsieur Patouillet to [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy1737
EL/G2/17Letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris18 January 1734
MM/20/10Letter from David Hartley to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society2 August 1742
CLP/11i/44Paper, 'A problem in chimistry. To find ashes which do not contain any particles of iron' by M [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy[1709?]
CLP/11i/43Paper, 'Experiments made upon metals with the Duke of Orleans his burning-glasse' by M [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy[1709]
L&P/1/77Letter, 'On soap lees and hard soap' from Claude Joseph Geoffroy to David Hartley23 July 1741
EL/G2/16Extract of a letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy [Claude Joseph] to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris4 May 1732
EL/G2/34Extract of a letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy [Claude Joseph] to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1737
EL/G2/36Extract of a letter, from Monsieur [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1739
EL/G2/27Extract of a letter, from Monsieur [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1740
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