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Richard Chenevix (chemist)

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188: 169:, an admirer of Wollaston, was the sole Society objector in the vote for the publication. Later that year, Wollaston publicly revealed his authorship (although he had communicated as much to the Royal Society before Chenevix's second paper) and details of how he had, correctly, isolated the element palladium. Chenevix bore no apparent animus in later meetings between the two. How damaging the affair was to Chenevix's reputation as a chemist in the scientific world has been a discussion point for different writers. In 1808 came his criticism of 22: 35: 129:. While in custody he had two children; also, amongst his fellow prisoners were a number of chemists who whetted his interest in the topic. After his release he studied at three different schools in Paris, gaining skills in chemical analysis. In 1798 he wrote his first paper, in French: 'Analysis of some magnesium rocks' in 211:; and, in 1828, published a review on Gall, Spurzheim, and Phrenology. Spurzheim was so impressed with Chenevix's review that he sought (and was granted) permission to immediately re-print the article as a pamphlet, with 12-page appendix of his (Spurzheim's) own notes. 218:, who reawakened an interest in animal magnetism that had been dormant since Chenevix's visit to Rotterdam in 1797. In 1828, on a visit to Ireland, he began to practise mesmerism. He wrote extensively of his experiences in a series of papers published in the 165:. Wollaston, again anonymously, offered a reward to anyone who could confirm Chenevix's claims experimentally. On his part, Chenevix published a second paper supporting his result in 1805, by which time he'd made Paris his permanent home. 360:
An Essay Upon National Character: Being an Inquiry into Some of the Principal Causes Which Contribute to Form and Modify the Characters of Nations in the State of Civilisation, in Two Volumes: Vol.II, London: J. Johnson &
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Phrenology Article of the Foreign Quarterly Review, by Rich. Chenevix, Esq., F.R.S., &c., With Notes from G. Spurzheim, M.D. of the Universities of Vienna and Paris, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of
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He wrote a paper in England in 1802 supporting French Neologist-inspired changes to chemical nomenclature. During a year in Germany, he published criticisms of the work of ground-breaking scientists: Danish chemist and
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On 4 June 1812 he married "an aging French beauty of dubious reputation", Countess Jeanne Françoise de Rouault (?-1836), the widow of Comte Charles de Rouault, whom he had met at the home of Sir John Sebright.
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had extracted from platinum ore the previous year (and had announced and offered for sale anonymously) was in fact an alloy of mercury and platinum. For this seemingly astonishing result, he was awarded the
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An Essay Upon National Character: Being an Inquiry into Some of the Principal Causes Which Contribute to Form and Modify the Characters of Nations in the State of Civilisation, in Two Volumes: Vol.I
173:'s classification of minerals. In 1809, he produced his final scientific paper, a method to produce acetone by distilling acetates. An English translation of a paper he wrote in 1808 for 696: 424: 608:
Usselman, Melvyn C. (1978). "The Wollaston/Chenevix Controversy over the Elemental Nature of Palladium: A Curious Episode in the History of Chemistry".
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Also in 1829, he gave a series of lectures and demonstrations of mesmerism in London that were attended by such eminent medical men as
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and playwright who also wrote on a range of other topics. He was known for his sharp cynicism and for engaging in combative criticism.
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He enrolled at Glasgow University in 1785, but did not take a degree; however, he did graduate A.B. from the University of Dublin.
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Chenevix was a member of a number of European societies. The Royal Society has (a minimum of) twenty-six papers by Chenevix.
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Dramatic Poems: Leonora, a Tragedy; and Etha and Aidallo, a Dramatic Poem (Second Edition), London: W. Bulmer and Co.
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The mineral Chenevixite was named in his honour because of his earlier work analysing copper ferrate arsenates.
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Two Plays: Mantuan Revels, a Comedy, in Five Acts; Henry the Seventh, an Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts
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Chenevix went to Paris after his university studies. He was imprisoned there for 15 months during the
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Reilly, Desmond (1955). "Richard Chenevix (1774–1830) and the Discovery of Palladium".
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printed his various economic and cultural articles on France and England.
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Richard Cavendish – A great scientist with extraordinary peculiarities
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In November 1807, he attended the Paris lectures of the phrenologists
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His sister, Sarah Elizabeth, married Captain Hugh Tuite of Sonna,
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which had given additional rights to Protestants. His great uncle
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James Braid: Surgeon, Gentleman Scientist, and Hypnotist
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He died in Paris on 5 April 1830, and was buried in the
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