The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, popularly known as the Lit. & Phil., is one of the oldest learned societies in the United Kingdom and second oldest provincial learned society.
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John Dalton by Thomas Phillips, National Portrait Gallery, London (1835)
John Mercer (scientist)
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John Mercer was an English dye and fabric chemist and fabric printer born in Great Harwood, Lancashire. In 1844 he developed a process for treating cotton, mercerisation, that improves many of its qua
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
…William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Robert Bunsen, Sergey Kapitsa, Dmitri Mendeleev, Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Jöns Jacob Berzelius and John Mercer. The society's Memoirs and Proceedings (first published in 1783) was, at the time of its launch, the only regular scientific journal in the United…
John Mercer