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Dr. John Macadam (May 1827 – 2 September 1865), was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical teacher and politician. The genus ''Macadamia'' was named after him in 1857 by his colleague Ferdinand von Mueller. ==Life== Macadam was born in Northbank, near Glasgow, Scotland. He studied chemistry at the Andersonian University and the University of Edinburgh, later switching to medicine at Glasgow. In 1855, he went to Melbourne, where he had been appointed as a lecturer in chemistry and natural science at Scotch College. He later became the first lecturer to teach at the University of Melbourne School of Medicine and on 3 March 1862 he commenced lectures in chemistry. In 1858, he was appointed the Victorian Government Analytical Chemist. Between 1857 and 1862, Macadam served as Honorary Secretary of The Philosophical Institute of Victoria which later became the Royal Society of Victoria, and was appointed Vice-President in 1863. He was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Victorian Parliament, representing Castlemaine. He was Postmaster-General of Victoria in 1861. Macadam died in 1865 after a shipboard accident. His grave is in Melbourne General Cemetery and he is commemorated in an exhibition in the School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne. 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「John Macadam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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