JOHN MURRAY (1778–1820)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V19,
Page 42
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JOHN See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- JOHN MURRAY (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
MURRAY (1778–1820)
, Scottish chemist, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh in 1778 and died there on the 22nd of See also:July 182o
.
He graduated M.D. at St See also:Andrews in 1814, and attained some reputation as a lecturer on See also:chemistry and materia medica
.
He was an opponent of See also:Sir See also:Humphry See also:Davy's theory of See also:chlorine, supporting the view that the substance contained See also:oxygen, and it was in the course of experiments made to disprove his arguments that Dr See also:John Davy discovered phosgene or carbonyl chloride
.
He was a diligent writer of textbooks, including Elements of Chemistry (18o1); Elements of Materia Medica and See also:Pharmacy (1804); A See also:System of Chemistry (1806), and (anonymously) A See also:Comparative View of the Huttonian and Neptunian Systems of See also:Geology
.
He is sometimes confused with another John See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray (1786–1851), a popular lecturer at See also:mechanics' institutes
.
The two men carried on a dispute about the inven- I tion of a miners' safety See also:lamp in the Phil
.
See also:Hag. for 1817
.
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