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James Napier (1810 - 1 December 1884) was a Scottish industrial chemist and antiquarian. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ==Life== James was born in Partick, Glasgow the son of James Napier, a gardener, and Margaret Buchanan, a seamstress. In October 1831 he married Christina McIndoe. They had eight children. Napier made several important advances within industrial chemistry and lodged several patents. He joined the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1849, and many of his 32 known scientific papers were presented to the Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1876. After his wife died in March 1881, he never fully recovered from the event, and he died at his home, Maryfield, Bothwell, Lanarkshire on 1 December 1884.〔Oxford Dictionary of National Biography〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Napier (chemist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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