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James Smithson
James Louis Macie Smithson
1765 - 1829
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
James Smithson (c. 1765 – 27 June 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the late 1700s as well as assisting in the development of calamine, which would eventually be renamed after him as "smithsonite". He was the[...]
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