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THE death of Sir John Gustav Jarmay on August 22 at the age of eighty-seven probably removes the last of those heroic figures who, with Ludwig Mond and John Brunner, struggled to found the ammonia soda industry in Great Britain and in the end established our greatest and most successful chemical industry. A Hungarian by birth, he studied at Zurich and came to England in 1875, working for a short time with Roscoe before he obtained a junior position with Greenall Whitley, the Warrington brewers. Ludwig Mond, who lived at first outside Widnes and later at Winnington, must have come across him and brought him in to help in 1877, four years after the start. It is a pity that no one has put these early days on record, days of continuous effort round the clock, of many failures and difficulties and always the courage of Ludwig and Frieda Mond to try again. Another helper was Carl Markel, tutor to Robert and Alfred Mond, a swarthy Stuttgarter of great originality. Jarmay made good and was chief technical manager when Brunner Mond was formed as a company: eight years later he joined the board of the company.
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ARMSTRONG, E. Sir John Jarmay, K.B.E. Nature 154, 422 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154422a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154422a0