James Alfred Wanklyn

James Alfred Wanklyn (Ashton-under-Lyne, 18 de fevereiro de 1834 – New Malden19 de julho de 1906) foi um químico inglês. Conhecido principalmente por seu "método do amoníaco" de determinação da qualidade da água e seus argumentos afiados para com aqueles, como Edward Frankland, que se opunham a ele em relação à análise da água. Trabalhou com Frankland, Robert Bunsen e Lyon Playfair. Foi professor de química da London Institution após 1864, e muitos de seus artigos foram publicados naquela instituição.

James Alfred Wanklyn

Participou do Congresso de Karlsruhe de 1860.

Publicações selecionadas

• Tea, coffee and cocoa: a practical treatise on the analysis of tea, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, maté (Paraguay tea), etc., London: Trubner and Company, 1874
• Milk-analysis. A practical treatise on the examination of milk and its derivatives, cream, butter, and cheese, London: Trubner and Company, 1874
• Air-analysis: a practical treatise on the examination of air. With an appendix on illuminating gas, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1890
• Arsenic, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1901
• Sewage Analysis, 2nd edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1905
• Water-analysis, a practical treatise on the examination of potable water, 11th edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1907

Leitura adicional

• Men of the Time, 12th edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1887 - contains biographical information
• Cooper, W. J., "Memoir of James Alfred Wanklyn", in Water-analysis, a practical treatise on the examination of potable water, 11th edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1907
• Brock, W. H., "James Alfred Wanklyn", Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 14, pages 168-70, 1976
• Hamlin, Christopher, A Science of Impurity, University of California Press, 1990