J. R. Partington

This article is about J. R. Partington the chemist. For J. R. Partington the mathematician, see Jonathan Partington.

J. R. Partington
Born
James Riddick Partington

30 June 1886
Bolton, England
Died9 October 1965 (1965-10-10) (aged 79)
Northwich, England
NationalityEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Manchester (BS, MA, PhD)
SpouseMarian Jones
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsHistory of science, Chemistry
Doctoral studentsFrederick Ernest King

James Riddick Partington (30 June 1886 – 9 October 1965) was a British chemist and historian of chemistry who published multiple books and articles in scientific magazines. His most famous works were An Advanced Treatise on Physical Chemistry (five volumes) and A History of Chemistry (four volumes), for which he received the Dexter Award and the George Sarton Medal.

Partington was a fellow and council member of the Chemical Society of London as well as the first president of the Society for History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry when it was founded in 1937. The society founded the Partington Prize in his memory in 1975.[1] He was president of the British Society for the History of Science from 1949 to 1951.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Partington Dextor Bio" (PDF). University of Illinois School of Science.
  2. ^ Partington, J. R. (1951). "Chemistry as rationalized alchemy". Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science. 1 (6): 129–135. doi:10.1017/s0950563600000543.
  3. ^ Browne, Janet (1997). "Officers and council members of the British Society for the History of Science, 1947–97" (PDF). The British Journal for the History of Science. 30 (1): 77–89. doi:10.1017/s0007087496002919.