Alexander John Gaspard Marcet
Swiss-British physician
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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet was a Swiss-British physician who married Jane Marcet, an English writer known for her accessible educational books. The couple shared a mutual interest in chemistry, and Jane's most famous work, Conversations on Chemistry (1805), was inspired by discussions with her husband. This book became one of the first basic science textbooks and was influential, even for a young Michael Faraday. Alexander John Gaspard Marcet died in Geneva in 1822.1
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