Joseph William Mellor

Joseph William Mellor was a chemist.He was born in Lindley, Huddersfield, England, in 1869 [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101056145/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] ] . He grew up on New Zealand's South Island where his father found employment in the textile industry. The family was too poor to send Joseph to secondary school, but he continued to study in his spare time.Mellor graduated from the University of Otago in 1898. He won a scholarship to study for a research degree at the University of Manchester. After his three years at Manchester, he based himself in Staffordshire where he carried out research in ceramics. In 1910 the separate towns which make up Stoke-on-Trent federated, and a decision was made to build a technical college, which opened in 1914 with Mellor as Principal. The college specialised in ceramics and mining: it was provided with a ceramics library by the Carnegie UK Trust [The files on this and other Carnegie libraries in the UK are held in the National Archives of Scotland] .During the First World War Mellor specialised in refractories, high-temperature ceramics relevant to the steel industry.In 1927 Mellor became the second person to be elected to the Royal Society for work related to ceramics, the first having been Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century.

Mellor's publications include a sixteen-volume "Comprehensive Treatise" on inorganic chemistry, [ [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/M/MellorJosephWilliamCbeFrs/MellorJosephWilliamCbeFrs/en Encyclopaedia of New Zealand] ] which after Mellor's death in 1938 was updated by other experts.

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Mellor, J.W. "Uncle Joe's Nonsense for Young and Old Children"
London, Longman, Green and Co. 1934

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NAME= Mellor, Joseph William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= scientist
DATE OF BIRTH= 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH= Huddersfield, England
DATE OF DEATH= 1938
PLACE OF DEATH= London