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    John Peter Gassiot FRS (2 April 1797 – 15 August 1877) [also Gassiott] was an English businessman and amateur scientist. He was particularly associated...
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    year he invented a galvanometer. Sturgeon was a close associate of John Peter Gassiot and Charles Vincent Walker, and the three were instrumental in founding...
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    Harris and Charles Wheatstone. Grove also attracted the attention of John Peter Gassiot, a relationship that resulted in Grove's becoming the first professor...
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    Biographer: 1838. p. 38. Retrieved 22 December 2018 – via Google Books. "John Ivatt Briscoe". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. University College London...
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    of God's Gift, funded the school from 1891. B was renamed Gassiot after John Peter Gassiot, a businessman who was treasurer from the school's opening...
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    (d. 1861) Joseph-François Deblois, Lower Canadian lawyer (d. 1860) John Peter Gassiot, English businessman, amateur scientist (d. 1877) Dunning R. McNair...
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  • Calverley Trevelyan, naturalist and geologist (died 1879) 2 April John Peter Gassiot, businessman and amateur scientist (died 1877) David Robertson, 1st...
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  • Frankland, "Researches on Organo-metallic Bodies. Fourth Memoir". 1858 John Peter Gassiot, "On the Stratifications and dark band in Electrical Discharges as...
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  • in establishing the Society by operative chemist William Leithead; John Peter Gassiot, an amateur scientist with a particular interest in electricity; and...
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  • July – John Frost, Welsh-born Chartist leader (born 1784) 8 August – William Lovett, Chartist leader (born 1800) 15 August – John Peter Gassiot, businessman...
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