John Stenhouse
1809–80
Scottish chemist. Studied chemistry at the Universities of Glasgow and Geissen. Lecturer on chemistry at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 1851–7. Assayer to the Royal Mint, 1865–70. Patented inventions for dyeing, tanning, and sugar manufacture. Especially noted for developing a charcoal air-filter. FRS 1848.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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