Born at Dublin, Ireland, October 10, 1832, son of Robert Mallet and Cordelia Watson, his wife, his father a noted civil engineer and member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society, also a well known scientific author.
Educator: Came to America in 1853 to teach at Amherst College and the University of Louisiana. In 1868 he came to the University of Virginia where he would serve as Professor of Chemistry for the next 40 years.
Born at Dublin, Ireland, October 10, 1832, son of Robert Mallet and Cordelia Watson, his wife, his father a noted civil engineer and member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society, also a well known scientific author.
Educator: Came to America in 1853 to teach at Amherst College and the University of Louisiana. In 1868 he came to the University of Virginia where he would serve as Professor of Chemistry for the next 40 years.
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Lieutenant Col of Artillery in the Army of the Confederate States. Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Virginia from 1868 - 1908
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