| 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 |