Albert Leon Henne
Albert Leon Henne , called Al Henne , (born March 24, 1901 in Brussels , † 1967 ) was a Belgian-American chemist.
Henne received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Brussels in 1925 and came to the United States on an academic exchange program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925 . In 1933 he became a US citizen. From 1931 he was Special Lecturer and Research Director of the Midgley Foundation at Ohio State University (Department of Organic Chemistry), from 1938 Associate Professor and from 1942 Professor.
He worked with Thomas Midgley at General Motors in the 1930s on developing working gases for refrigerators, which were supposed to be non-toxic and not as easily flammable as propane. They found the solution in chlorofluorocarbons , especially dichlorodifluoromethane ( Freon ).
Henne was a specialist in organic fluorine compounds.
literature
- Short biography in Ronald Banks: Fluorine: the first hundred years (1886–1986), Elsevier 1986, p. 100
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth in Downs (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Biography, American Historical Society 1969
- ↑ Derek Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 282
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henne, Albert Leon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hen, Al |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1967 |