James Napier FRSE FCS (1810 – 1 December 1884) was a Scottish industrial chemist and antiquarian.
He was apprenticed as a dyer and attended extramural classes in chemistry at Glasgow University under Prof Thomas Graham.
[2] Napier made several important advances within industrial chemistry and lodged several patents.
His proposers were James Young, George Forbes, Lord Kelvin, and John Hutton Balfour.
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