John Browne (chemist)

John Browne or Brown (died 1735) was an English chemist, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1721.^[1]

His father John Browne of London was an apothecary, and Browne joined the Society of Apothecaries in 1697. He discovered the presence of magnesia in sea-water, and researched the manufacture of Prussian blue (invented by Johann Jacob Diesbach, in 1706^[2]), publishing on these topics in the Philosophical Transactions.^[1][3]

Notes

1. McConnell, Anita. "Browne, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3620. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Kraft, Alexander (2008). "On the Discovery and History of Prussian Blue" (PDF). Bull. Hist. Chem. 33 (2): 61–67.
3. British Association for the Advancement of Science (1863). A history of the trade and manufactures of the Tyne, Wear, and Tees: comprising the papers prepared under the auspices of a committee of local industry and read at the sectional meetings of the British Association, 1863. Lambert. p. 150. Retrieved 7 July 2013.