James Ballantyne Hannay
1855–1931
Scottish chemist and inventor. Took out over seventy patents in Britain. In 1880, claimed to have synthesised diamonds. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1875. In later years wrote on religion.
Sources
BHGW
New Scientist, 21 February 1980, p. 591
University of Dundee Archive Services Online Catalogue, MS 97 (accessed 21 January 2020)
Bibliography
BHGW: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften enthaltend Nachweisung über Lebensverhältnisse und Leistungen von Mathematikern, Astronomen, Physikern, Chemikern, Mineralogen, Geologen usw. By Johann Christian Poggendorff. 5 vols. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth; Verlag Chemie. 1863–1926.
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