Richard Chenevix (chemist)
- Richard Chenevix (chemist)
Richard Chenevix FRS (ca. 1774 – 5 April 1830) was an Irish chemist.
Chenevix was a chemist who played a role in the discovery of the elemental nature of the metal palladium. Disbelieving this solid to be an element, in 1803 he published his opinions that it was a combination of mercury and platinum. This had, somewhat indirectly, the effect of spurring on others to examine the new metal, which is indeed an element.
Chenevix was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801 and was awarded its Copley Medal in 1803. He married the Contesse de Rouault on June 4th 1812 at Marylebone Church.
Richard Chenevix died in Paris in 1830 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
See also
* William Hyde Wollaston
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