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James Smithson

British chemist

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Field of work
Chemistry
Mineralogy

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Works from the collections

5 works

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    The lost world of James Smithson : science, revolution, and the birth of the Smithsonian / Heather Ewing.

    Ewing, Heather P. | Date: 2007
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    Biographical sketch of James Smithson / abridged from chapter on James Smithson by S.P. Langley in "The Smithsonian institution, 1846-1896, the history of its first half century," 1897.

    Samuel Langley | Date: 1914
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    The removal of the remains of James Smithson / by S.P. Langley.

    Samuel Langley | Date: [1903]
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    The first hundred years of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1946 / by Webster P. True.

    Webster Prentiss True | Date: 1946
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    The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian / Nina Burleigh.

    Nina Burleigh | Date: [2003], ©2003

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