John Frederick Daniell was an English physicist. He was born in 1790 at London and died in 1845. In 1816 together with Brande he started the Quarterly Journal of Science and Art. In 1820 he published an account of a new hygrometer which he had invented. In 1831 he was appointed professor of chemistry in King's College, London, and made further important discoveries, chief amongst which was his apparatus for maintaining a powerful and continuous current of electricity in galvanic batteries. For these discoveries he received successively the three medals in the gift of the Royal Society. In 1843 he was made a DCL of Oxford. Research John Daniell
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