Evening star., 1924-01-27
ID. c. SCIENTISTS
| PUT IN HONOR ROLL
Four in List of SO Americans
Eminent in Chem
istry.

of leaders in the American CheYnicaI
Society. The residents in the District
who were chosen are:
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, United
States geological survey, chairman Of
the International committee on atomic
weights.
F. G. cottrell. chief Of the United
States fixed nitrogen research labra-
tory, and inventor of the Cottrell pro
cess for the electrical precipitation of
fumes, which is declared to have saved
millions to many industries.
w. F. Hillebrand, chief chemist OF
the United States bureau of standards,
renowned as chemical analyst.
Harvey w. Wiley, former chief of
the bureau of chemistry. known as the
father of the pure food law.
OF the thirty-th three men chosen,
twenty-five are living. Besides the
four local men, the list of living as
announced by d. II. Killeffer, associate
editor Of the Journal of Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry, follows:
L. II. Baekeland, Yonkers n. Y, in
ventor of bakelite, president of the
American Chemical Society, honorary
professor of chemical engineering III
Columbia University.
Wilder D. Bancroft, Cornell Uni
versity, physical chemist. noted for
his work on the Phase; rule and on
the chemistry of colloids.
Bertram B. Boltwood, Yale Uni
versity, discoverer Of the radio active
element ionium.
Charles F. Chandler. Columbia Uni
versity. dean of American industrial
chemists. and pioneer in the appli
cation of science to public health and
general public welfare
Russell Fl. Chittenden, Yale Uni
versity, pioneer in the investigation
of the chemistry OF life processes.
Worker in Theoretical Research.
E. C. Franklin, Leland Stanford
University. worker in theoretical re-
searches on liquid ammonia and the
Moses Gomberg. University of
Michigan, theoretical research in or
ganic chemistry.
Irving Langmuir, General Electric
gator in the field of pure theory.
whose work has been applied praC
tically to the development Of gas
filled incandescent lamps and to the
development of the audion bulb used
In wireless communication.
G. N. Lewis, University of Califor-
MIA, investigator in the study OF
thermodynamics and its application
to the study Of chemical reactions.
A A Noyes, California institute institute. Of. Of
in the field of the theory of solutions.
w. A. Noyes, University of Illinois.
research worker, editor and builder
in education.
sity, famous as a teacher and for re.
searches. notably the synthesis OF
saccharin.
T. W. Richards. Harvard University,
Nobel prize winner, VINO mas oe-
termined the atomic weights of TWEEN
ty-two of the less than ninety
known elements, in every case his
values being accepted above al
Edgar F. Smith. University of Penn
nd inVpEffRQf0T
who devised methods of analysis by
means of the electric current, which
are world standards.
julius Stieglitz, University OF chi
cago, investigator In mo- organld ian 70 cre.i make
possible the establishment or an
American industry for supplying or
eanic chemicals needed in medicine
duT,hg m 3 ehS Van ra' slSie. Rockefeller In
stitute for Medical Research' noted
for his work in the chemistry or IRE
processes. especially the chemistry or
the blood.
W. r. Whitney. General Electric
er and director of the first great re-
search laboratory designed to serve
single large industry
List of the Dead.
Chemists in the list who have died
were:
James Curtis Booth. Philadelphia.
the first American chemist to intro
duce a laboratory into the teaching
of chemistry; assayer of the United
states mint during the period Of the
Forty y-niners. by whose formula the
bronze one-cent pieces are still made.
Josiah Parsons Cooke. Harvard
University, theoretical research.
j. Willard Gibbs, Yale University.
who made the greatest single con-
tribution to theoretical chemistry by
an American: noted for his phase
rule and other mathematical appli-
cations
Woicott Gibbs, Harvard University
and College of the City of New York.
theoretical researches in organic
chemistry.
Robert Hare, University of Penn
| sylvania, father of electro o-chemistry;
| first prepared graphite. phosphorus
! and calcium carbide in the electric
furnace and invented the oxy-hydTo-
gen blowpipe.
T. Sterry Hunt, McGill University
and Arizona mine worker, who con-
| tributed to the theory Of chemistry
| and of geology; devised a method of
| wet extraction of copper from low
grade ores. which has resulted in the
utilization of former wastes OF the
| copper smelters.
Chemist of the Confederacy.
J. W. Mallett, University of Vir-
ginia. the chemist Of the confederacy,
| was in charge OF munitions for Lees
armies, and with Remsen was largely
| instrumental in bringing post gradu-
| ate research into the American uni
versities
E. w. Morley. Western Reserve
| University, who "established with
| almost unbelievable accuracy the re-
lation between the atomic weights
Of hydrogen and oxygen in col
| laboration with Nicholson carried out
! the experiments on which the modern.
theory of relativity is based.
| Joseph Priestley, Northumberland,
Pa, the first chemist to study gases,
| discoverer Of oxygen, inventor of soda
| Count (Benjamin Thompson) Rum
ford, native American and Harvard
graduate, who because of royalist
sympathy, fled to Europe during the
| revolution, founded the Royal Insti-
| tuition OF Great Britain: founded the
chair of chemistry at Harvard Uni
! Roman empire for services to Bavaria
/ BENJAMIN Silliman. first professor
| of chemistry in Yale College, found
| er of the American Journal Of Science
| J. Lawrence Smith, University OF
Louisville, neurological chemist, and
| special envoy of President Buchanan
| to Turkey, where he made his survey
Of mineral resources which led to the
development of emery deposits in
| Asia Minor.
Morley, A. A. Noyes, w. A. Noyes,
| Remsen, Richards, Edgar r. Smith,
]. Lawrence Smith. Stieglitz. Whitney
| and Wiley have been presidents of