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Richard Phillips (1778-1851), one of the first modern analytical chemists
Born in the City of London
1807 Founding member of the Geological Society
Lectured in chemistry at the London Hospital, at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and at St Thomas’s Hospital
Curator of the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
1849-51 President of the Chemical Society. [1]
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