James Price

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English chemist and alchemist

ScientistsLived 1757 to 1783 · aged 26

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James Price, born James Higginbotham, was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead killed himself by drinking prussic acid.

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Title page of Price's pamphlet An Account of Some Experiments on Mercury, Silver and Gold, Made at Guildford in May, 1782, published in Oxford in 1782 and describing his experiments

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Scientists born in the 1750s 6

Georg Heinrich Weber42.6

Edward Troughton42.4

Barnaba Oriani42.9

Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer42.3 Joseph Billings43.1

Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis42.3

James Price

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