Thomas Midgley Jr.

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Doğum: 18 Mayıs 1889(1889-05-18) Beaver Falls, Pensilvanya, ABD
Ölüm: 02 Kasım 1944 (55 yaşında) Worthington, Ohio, ABD
Milliyet: Amerikalı
Meslek: Kimyacı

Thomas Midgley Jr (d. 18 Mayıs 1889 - ö. 2 Kasım 1944), Amerikalı makine mühendisi ve kimyagerdir. 1916'da General Motors'da çalışmaya başlamıştır.
Benzinli motorlarda vuruntu önleyici olarak tetraetil kurşunu bulmuştur ayrıca buz dolaplarında soğutucu olarak florokarbon'u bulmuştur.
Ölüm sebebi kendi tasarladığı engellileri yatağına yatırma robotunun makara sisteminin kontrolden çıkıp Midgley’in boğazını kesmesidir.
| g t Amerikan Kimya Topluluğu Başkanları |
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1876 – 1900:  John W. Draper (1876)  J. Lawrence Smith (1877)  Samuel William Johnson (1878)  T. Sterry Hunt (1879)  Frederick A. Genth (1880)  Charles F. Chandler (1881)  John W. Mallet (1882)  James C. Booth (1883)  Albert B. Prescott (1886)  Charles Anthony Goessmann (1887)  T. Sterry Hunt (1888)  Charles F. Chandler (1889)  Henry B. Nason (1890)  George F. Barker (1891)  George C. Caldwell (1892)  Harvey W. Wiley (1893)  Edgar Fahs Smith (1895)  Charles B. Dudley (1896)  Charles E. Munroe (1898)  Edward W. Morley (1899)  William McMurtrie (1900) 
1901 – 1925:  Frank W. Clarke (1901)  Ira Remsen (1902)  John H. Long (1903)  Arthur Amos Noyes (1904)  Francis P. Venable (1905)  William F. Hillebrand (1906)  Marston T. Bogert (1907)  Willis R. Whitney (1909)  Wilder D. Bancroft (1910)  Alexander Smith (1911)  Arthur Dehon Little (1912)  Theodore W. Richards (1914)  Charles H. Herty (1915)  Julius Stieglitz (1917)  William H. Nichols (1918)  William A. Noyes (1920)  Edgar Fahs Smith (1921)  Edward C. Franklin (1923)  Leo H. Baekeland (1924)  James Flack Norris (1925) 
1926 – 1950:  George D. Rosengarten (1927)  Samuel W. Parr (1928)  Irving Langmuir (1929)  William McPherson (1930)  Moses Gomberg (1931)  Lawrence V. Redman (1932)  Arthur B. Lamb (1933)  Charles L. Reese (1934)  Roger Adams (1935)  Edward Bartow (1936)  Edward R. Weidlein (1937)  Frank C. Whitmore (1938)  Charles A. Kraus (1939)  Samuel C. Lind (1940)  William Lloyd Evans (1941)  Harry N. Holmes (1942)  Per K. Frolich (1943)  Thomas Midgley Jr. (1944)  Carl S. Marvel (1945)  Bradley Dewey (1946)  W. Albert Noyes Jr. (1947)  Charles A. Thomas (1948)  Linus Pauling (1949)  Ernest H. Volwiler (1950) 
1951 – 1975:  N. Howell Funnan (1951)  Edgar C. Britton (1952)  Farrington Daniels (1953)  Harry L. Fisher (1954)  Joel H. Hildebrand (1955)  John C. Warner (1956)  Roger J. Williams (1957)  Clifford F. Rassweiler (1958)  John C. Bailar Jr. (1959)  Albert L. Elder (1960)  Arthur C. Cope (1961)  Karl Folkers (1962)  Henry Eyring (1963)  Maurice H. Arveson (1964)  Charles C. Price (1965)  William J. Sparks (1966)  Charles G. Overberger (1967)  Robert W. Cairns (1968)  Wallace R. Brode (1969)  Byron Riegel (1970)  Melvin Calvin (1971)  Max Tishler (1972)  Alan C. Nixon (1973)  Bernard S. Friedman (1974)  William J. Bailey (1975) 
1976 – 2000:  Glenn T. Seaborg (1976)  Henry A. Hill (1977)  Anna J. Harrison (1978)  Gardner W. Stacy (1979)  James D. D'Ianni (1980)  Albert C. Zettlemoyer (1981)  Robert W. Parry (1982)  Fred Basolo (1983)  Warren D. Niederhauser (1984)  Ellis K. Fields (1985)  George C. Pimentel (1986)  Mary L. Good (1987)  Gordon L. Nelson (1988)  Clayton F. Callis (1989)  Paul G. Gassman (1990)  S. Allen Heininger (1991)  Ernest L. Eliel (1992)  Helen M. Free (1993)  Ned D. Heindel (1994)  Brian M. Rushton (1995)  Ronald Breslow (1996)  Paul S. Anderson (1997)  Paul H.L. Walter (1998)  Edel Wasserman (1999)  Daryle H. Busch (2000) 
2001 –:  Attila E. Pavlath (2001)  Eli M. Pearce (2002)  Elsa Reichmanis (2003)  Charles P. Casey (2004)  William F. Carroll Jr. (2005)  Elizabeth Ann Nalley (2006)  Catherine T. Hunt (2007)  Bruce E. Bursten (2008)  Thomas H. Lane (2009)  Joseph Francisco (2010)  Nancy B. Jackson (2011)  Bassam Z. Shakhashiri (2012)  Marinda Li Wu (2013)  Thomas J. Barton (2014)  Diane Grob Schmidt (2015)  Donna J. Nelson (2016)  Allison A. Campbell (2017)  Peter K. Dorhout (2018)  Bonnie A. Charpentier (2019)  Luis Echegoyen (2020)  Judith Giordan, President Elect (2022) 
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Otorite kontrolü :  GND: 124000134  ISNI: 0000 0000 6159 2813  LCCN: no2002112228  NKC: js20090625009  SNAC: w6j406w9  VIAF: 47683711   WorldCat (LCCN): no2002-112228