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|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#645 | |link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#645 | ||
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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Draper, John William}}'''. American scientist, b. May 5, 1811, at St. Helen’s near Liverpool; d. Jan. 4, 1882, at Hastings, N.Y. Studied at Woodhouse Grove, Univ, of London, and the Medical School of the Univ, of Penna., 1835-36; elected Med. Prof., N.Y. University, 1837; Prof, of Chemistry, 1839; Prof. N.Y. School of Medicine, 1840-50; President of that School, 1850-73, and Prof, of Chern, until 1881. Made important researches in photo-chemistry. Among the first ones to take human portrait by light, made possible by his improvements on Daguerre’s process. Responsible to a great extent for prominence of N.Y.C. as center of medical education. Works: ''A Treatise on the Forces which Produce the Organization in Plants'', N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1844.—''A Text Book on Chemistry'', N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1846, etc.—*''History of the Intellectual Development of Europe'', 1863; 5th ed., N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1869.—''History of the Conflict between Religion and Science'', N.Y., D. Appleton & Co., 1875, etc.—''Scientific Memoirs'', N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1878, 8vo. | |||
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|author = Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail = vol. 6, p. 432 | |||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#432 | |||
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