John Buddle Blyth

Not to be confused with John Buddle.

John Buddle Blyth
MSA
John Buddle Blyth, attributed to Wilhelm Trautschold, 1845. Oil on canvas, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.
Born1814 (1814)
Died24 December 1871(1871-12-24) (aged 56–57)
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh
OccupationChemist
Medical career
InstitutionsQueen's College Cork
Notable worksFirst report of photopolymerisation

John Buddle Blyth (1814 – 24 December 1871) was a Jamaican-born chemist who was the first professor of chemistry at Queen's College Cork in Ireland. With August Wilhelm von Hofmann, he was the first to report photopolymerisation which they observed when styrene became metastyrol after exposure to sunlight.

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