Alexander Marcet, engraving by Henry Meyer after Sir Henry Raeburn.
Born
1 August 1770
Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Died
(1822-10-19)19 October 1822
Great Coram Street, London
Nationality
Genevan, British
Occupation(s)
physician, chemist
Known for
Fellow of the Royal Society
Alexander John Gaspard Marcet FRS (1 August 1770 – 19 October 1822), was a Genevan-born physician who became a British citizen in 1800.[1][2][3] His wife Jane Marcet was a prolific author, whose series of books entitled 'Conversations' treated topics such as chemistry, botany, religion and economics.
^Marcet, Alexandre, in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
^Rosenfeld, Louis (2001). "The Chemical Work of Alexander and Jane Marcet" (PDF). Clinical Chemistry. 47 (4): 784–92. doi:10.1093/clinchem/47.4.784. PMID 11274044. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^Louis Rosenfeld (1 April 2001). "The Chemical Work of Alexander and Jane Marcet". Clinical Chemistry. 47 (4): 784–92. doi:10.1093/clinchem/47.4.784. PMID 11274044.
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Jane Marcet (/ˈmɑːrsɛt/; née Haldimand; 1 January 1769 – 28 June 1858) was an English salonnière of Swiss origin, and an innovative writer of popular,...
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chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848) and the Swiss-British chemist AlexanderMarcet (1770–1822). Their analysis was consistent with an empirical formula...
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of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the 1760s and 1770s. In 1820, AlexanderMarcet noted the varying chemical composition of seawater in the different...
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historians that the origins date back to 1805, when John Yelloly, AlexanderMarcet and William Saunders left the Medical Society of London (MSL) as a...
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followed on from, and was much influenced by, that of AlexanderMarcet and William Prout. Marcet was also a physician at Guy's; Prout held no position...
June 10 – Robert Brown (born 1773), Scottish botanist. June 28 – Jane Marcet (born 1769), British popular science writer. November 8 – George Peacock...
Political Romance Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne January 1 – Jane Marcet, née Haldimand, English science writer (died 1858) February 9 – Susette...
1884–1885: Robert Henry Scott 1886–1887: William Ellis 1888–1889: William Marcet 1890–1891: Baldwin Latham 1892–1893: Charles Theodore Williams, first time...
Bagrationi-Mukhraneli (born 21 June 1969), wed in 1994 to Jaime Gaixas Marcet, had a son, Jaime Gaixas Bagration (born 15 September 1995). Prince Irakli...
Hewson January 1 Marie-Louise Lachapelle, French midwife (died 1821) Jane Marcet, née Haldimand, English popular science writer (died 1858) March 23 – William...
models. Together with Albert Marcet he developed the Parameterized Expectations Algorithm (PEA) and the “Denhaan-Marcet statistic” is used to evaluate...
3 – Edward Moxon, English poet and publisher (born 1801) June 28 – Jane Marcet, English writer of introductory science books (born 1769) October 25 – Dimitrie...
(1868–1945), who married Hermann Alexander, Count von Pourtalès (1847–1904) in 1891 after the death of his first wife, Marguerite Marcet. They both competed in...
Hill, D. E.; Jones, J. L.; Hightower, A. W.; Kirkland, E.; Roberts, J. M.; Marcet, P. L.; Lehmann, T.; Vianna, M. C.; Miska, K.; Sreekumar, C.; Kwok, O. C...
Fawcett, William Newmarch, Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone, Jane Marcet, George Warde Norman, William Blake, Walter Coulson, George Pryme, George...
a first class cricketer. He married Sophia Marcet, daughter of Swiss chemist Alexander John Gaspard Marcet. They had no known children. Henry Romilly...
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