biography
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Mitchill, Samuel (Latham)
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| lived:
| (1764–1831)
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| biography:
| US representative, senator, and physician, born in North Hempstead, New York, USA. He earned his MD (1786) in Edinburgh, Scotland, then returned to New York to study law. In 1792 he was named to a chair at Columbia University, first in natural history, chemistry, and agriculture, then in botany. He edited the Medical Repository (1797–1820), wrote many books including Explanation of the Synopsis of Chemical Nomenclature and Arrangement (1801), and made contributions to the study of sanitary and industrial chemistry. He was elected to the US House of Representatives (Republican, New York, 1801–4), leaving mid-term for the US Senate (1804–9), then returning to the House (1809–13). He taught at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York (1807–26) and helped found Rutgers Medical College (1826). |
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