Campbell Morfit

Campbell Morfit (19 November 1820 – 8 December 1897) was a distinguished chemist from the United States, co-editor with James Curtis Booth of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850).

[1] Morfit was born in Herculaneum, Missouri, on 19 November 1820 and was educated at the Columbian University in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.).

[1] He assisted Booth in development of a new method of refining gold, and in 1850 was assigned a share of the patent rights.

[2] In 1853 he established a laboratory at Pikesville Arsenal in Maryland, where he investigated gun metal, co-authoring a report with James Booth on the subject for the United States Ordnance department.

[1] His principal works were Applied Chemistry in the Manufacture of Soaps and Candles (1847); Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manipulations (1848); A Report of the Progress of the Chemical Arts, prepared with Booth for the Smithsonian institution (1851); Perfumery, its Manufacture and Use (1852–1855); Oleic Soaps (1871); and Mineral Phosphates (1873).