John Macadam
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| Born | 29 May 1827 |
| Died | 2 September 1865 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | Scientist, Analytical Chemist, Chemistry Lecturer, Health Officer, Member of the Victoria Legislature and Postmaster General |
| Known for |
An organiser of Burke and Wills Expedition Macadamia genus - macadamia nut - named after him |
An organiser of Burke and Wills Expedition
The Hon. Dr. John Macadam (29 May 1827 – 2 September 1865), was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet minister. Honorary Secretary of the Burke and Wills expedition. The genus Macadamia (Macadamia nut) was named after him in 1857. He died in Australia aged 38.
John Macadam was born at Northbank, Glasgow, Scotland on 29 May 1827, the son of William Macadam (1783-1853) and his wife Helen, née Stevenson (1803-1507). His father was a Glasgow businessman, who owned a spinning and textile printing works in Kilmarnock, and was a Burgess and a Bailie (alderman) of Glasgow. He and his fellow industrialists in the craft had developed, utilising chemistry, the processes for the large scale industrial printing of fabrics for which these plants in the area became known.
John Macadam was privately educated in Glasgow; he studied chemistry at the Andersonian University (now the University of Strathclyde) and went for advanced study at the University of Edinburgh under Professor William Gregory (chemist). In 1846-47 he went on to serve as assistant to Professor George Wilson (chemist) at the University of Edinburgh in his laboratory in Brown Square. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts that year and in 1848 a member of the Glasgow Philosophical Society. He then studied medicine at Glasgow University (LFPS, MD,1854; FFPSG,1855).
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