Dr john mitchell biography

This is the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of North America.
John Mitchell (April 13, 1711 – February 29, 1768) was a colonial American physician and botanist.
No preacher in this day and age compares with Dr. Mitchell who had the New Testament memorized and much of the Old as he loved it so much.

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John Mitchell (geographer)

Colonial American doctor and botanist (1711-1768)

For other people named John Mitchell, see John Mitchell (disambiguation).

John Mitchell (April 13, 1711 – February 29, 1768) was a colonial Americanphysician and botanist. He created the most comprehensive and perhaps largest 18th-century map of eastern North America, known today as the Mitchell Map. First published in 1755, in conjunction with the imminent Seven Years' War, the map was subsequently used during the Treaty of Paris (1783) to define the boundaries of the newly independent United States and has been resolving border disputes since.

The standard author abbreviationMitch. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Life

John Mitchell was born in 1711 in Lancaster County, Virginia to a relatively well off merchant and planting family. He went to Scotland to study at the University of Edinburgh, earning the M.A. in 1729, then studying medicine until 1731 but without receiving the M.D. He then returned to Virginia to practice medicin

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John Mitchell

Biography by John Attwood

John Mitchell was an American physician, botanist, and cartographer who produced maps of North America during the mid-eighteenth century. His most significant work, commonly referred to as the “Mitchell Map,” was published in 1755 and is considered one of the most influential maps of colonial North America.

Mitchell was born on April 13, 1711, in Lancaster County, Virginia, to Robert Mitchell and Mary Chilton Sharpe.¹ Little is known of Mitchell’s early life and education. He crossed the Atlantic for formal education in Britain, a common practice for young men of established families in the colonies like Mitchell’s. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1729, where he was likely exposed to subjects like natural philosophy, language, and botany that may have informed his cartography. After graduating, Mitchell entered medical school at Edinburgh until 1731. Although no existing record confirms that he received his degree, he was referred to as “Doctor Mitchell” by contemporaries.² Three years later, Mitchell esta

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Biography

John Mitchell has a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Cambridge. He returned there from University College London in 2000, taking up a lectureship in Chemistry. He was appointed to a readership at St Andrews in 2009. His recent research has used computational techniques in pharmaceutical chemistry and structural bioinformatics. His group have worked extensively on prediction of bioactivity, solubility, melting point and hydrophobicity from chemical structure, using both informatics and theoretical chemistry methodologies. Recently they have developed novel applications of machine learning in computational biochemistry, such as drug side effect prediction, and identifying athletic performance enhancers.

Teaching

Lecturer CH5714 Chemical Applications of Electronic Structure Calculations; Lecturer CH4431 Scientific Writing; Lecturer CH3717 Statistical Mechanics and Computational Chemistry; Convenor & Tutor, CH1202 Introductory Chemistry; Lecturer ID1003 Great Ideas 1; Lecturer ID1004 Great Ideas 2; Tutor CH2701 Physical Chemistry 2; Tutor CH1401 Introductory Inorgan