Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet FRS (5 February 1817 – 24 November 1880) was an English chemist.

Brodie did important original work on peroxides in his private laboratory[3] where he taught Nevil Story Maskelyne chemistry.

This provoked him into describing atomic theory as a "thoroughly materialistic bit of joiner's work".

[5] Despite opposition from some theological fellows, he was elected to the Aldrichan Chair (later renamed as the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry) at Oxford University 1865 to 1872, and is chiefly known for his investigations on the allotropic states of carbon and his discovery of graphitic acid.

[6] Brodie married Philothea Margaret, daughter of John Vincent Thompson, in 1848.