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John Percy

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Also known as Dr. John Percy, London

London art collector and metallurgist (1817-1889)

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John Percy (1817–1889) was a British metallurgist, university teacher, art collector, and photographer. Born in Nottingham and educated at the University of Edinburgh, he worked primarily in London. His professional activities spanned from 1850 until his death in 1889. Percy was a member of the Royal Society, where he received the Albert Medal and was recognized in the Royal Society collection. He also held the distinction of being a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Percy’s work focused on metallurgy and photography. His publications include *The manufacture of Russian sheet-iron*, *Die metallurgie*, *On the modes of extracting gold from its ores*, *Bright's disease*, and *Introductory lecture on organic chemistry, delivered at the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Birmingham*. His works are held in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Percy spoke English and was a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1817
Died
1889
Works
18

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1940-11-25
Active to
2015-04-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,119x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
John
Family name
Percy
Gender
male
Place of birth
Nottingham
Place of death
London
Occupation
photographer
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
photography
Image
John Percy (metallurgist).jpg
Work location
London
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date of birth
1817-03-23
date of death
1889-06-19
member of
Royal Society
start of work period
1850-01-01
end of work period
1889-01-01
Commons category
John Percy
has works in the collection
J. Paul Getty Museum
Sources (2)

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Works in European collections

7 objects attributed to John Percy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Available in 6 languages

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