Albert Charles Zettlemoyer
Albert Charles Zettlemoyer (born July 13, 1915 in Allentown (Pennsylvania) , † 1991 ) was an American chemist ( physical chemistry , colloid chemistry ).
Zettlemoyer studied from 1932 chemical engineering at Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in 1936 and a master's degree in 1938. He received his doctorate in physical chemistry in 1941 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He then went back to Lehigh University, where he founded a laboratory for surface chemistry (later Center for Surface and Coatings Research and now Zettlemoyer Center for Surface Studies) and was Professor of Chemistry until 1980. He was Distinguished Professor from 1960 and was Provost of the University and from 1966 to 1969 Vice President for Research.
He dealt with surface chemistry, first with catalysts and then also in general, for adsorption on surfaces, for example lubrication, wetting heat, surfaces of pigments and minerals, corrosion (attack by hydrogen halides on iron), hydrophobic properties. He investigated the effect of silver iodide as a condensation nucleus for cloud formation and optimized the surface properties of the substances used to make rain .
From 1964 he was the successor of LaMer with Milton Kerker, the Journal of Colloid Science (from 1966 Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ). In 1968 he received the Kendall Award from the American Chemical Society .
Fonts
- with E. McCafferty: The corroding iron surface, 1,2, J. of Phys. Chemistry, Vol. 71, 1967, pp. 2444-2452, 2452-2456
- with Noubar Tcheurekdjian, Charles Hosler: Ice nucleation by hydrophobic substrates, Z. f. Angew. Math. And Physik, Volume 14, 1963, pp. 469-502
- On Physical Adsorption, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 87, 1965, pp. 2079-2080
- Nucleation Phenomena, Elsevier 1977
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 466
Web links
- Photo at Lehigh University
- Biography at Lehigh University
- Literature by and about Albert Charles Zettlemoyer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zettlemoyer, Albert Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allentown, Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1991 |