1. John William Mallet FRS was an Irish chemist who lived and worked in the United States.
15 Facts About John Mallet
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John William Mallet was born near Dublin to Robert Mallet and Cordelia Mallet.
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Robert Mallet was a civil engineer and a fellow of the Royal Society and other societies and had an ample scientific library which his son had explored.
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John Mallet presented the associated thesis on the chemical composition of Celtic antiquities to the museum of the Royal Irish Academy.
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John Mallet resided there for the rest of his life, but never became an American citizen.
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John Mallet served in that capacity, with a brief leave of absence spent at Mobile, until the American Civil War.
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John Mallet was transferred to the artillery in May 1862 and by 1865 became lieutenant colonel and then superintendent of the ordnance laboratories of the Southern States.
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In 1908 John Mallet was appointed professor emeritus at the age of seventy-six, but still kept his residence at Charlottesville.
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John Mallet was a fellow or member of many chemical and other learned societies, including the.
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John Mallet Assembly was located in John Mallet Hall, which was named for him.
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John Mallet is buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery.
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The scientific work of John Mallet covered a wide field including general and applied chemistry and chemical mineralogy.
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John Mallet devised methods for the determination of organic matter in potable water and characterised meteorites and rare terrestrial minerals; in particular, he studied the occurrence of silver in the ash of South American volcanoes.
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John Mallet accurately determined the density of solid mercury, molecular weight of hydrofluoric acid and the atomic weights of lithium, aluminium and gold.
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John Mallet served as expert witness in many court cases involving poisoning, value of iron ore, pollution of river water and other chemical questions.