John Alexander Campbell, an industrial chemist, was a Fellow of the (British) Institute of Chemistry. He worked at the Dynamite Factory, Northrand (next to Modderfontein, now located in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality) by 1922 and was still there in 1933. He became a member of the South African Association of Analytical Chemists in 1914 and continued his membership when it changed its name to the South African Chemical Institute in 1921. He was a member of council from 1917 to 1923 and again from 1926 to 1927, serving as vice-president for 1918/9 and 1921/2. In 1918 he published two articles in the first volume of the association's Journal, one on nitre-cake, the other on the standardisation of acid and alkali.

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FamilySearch: John Alexander Campbell. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91L-898P-R?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:6CT4-TDPX&action=view

Journal of the South African Chemical Institute, first decennial index, Volumes I to X, 1918-1927. Johannesburg: SACI, 1928.

South African Chemical Institute. Proceedings and list of members, 1921/2; 1933/4.

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