John Joseph Griffin

John Joseph Griffin ( born January 22, 1802 in Webbs Square, Shoreditch, London, † June 9, 1877 in Park Road, Haverstock Hill ) was a chemist and mineralogist in London.

He studied in the early 1820s in Glasgow at the Andersonian Institution, 1826-28 at the Glasgow Mechanics' Institute, 1829 in Paris and in the early 1830s in Heidelberg at Leopold Gmelin.

Mainly, he developed and negotiated chemical apparatus in Glasgow. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Society and Honorary Member of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow.

Publications

• A Manual of Analytical Chemistry (1831 ) ( translation by H. Rose, Handbook of Analytical Chemistry)
• A system of Crystallography (1841 )
• Radical Theory in Chemistry (1858 ) ( Online)
• Chemical Handicraft (1866, 2nd ed 1877)
• A practical treatise on the use of the blowpipe, in chemical and mineral ( Online)