James Marsh
1794–1846
Employed for many years as practical chemist to the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. Assistant to Michael Faraday, Royal Military Academy, 1829–46. Invented the test for arsenic that bears his name.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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