Arthur B. Lamb

Arthur Becket Lamb (born February 25, 1880 in Attleboro , Massachusetts , † May 15, 1952 ) was an American chemist ( physical chemistry , inorganic chemistry ).

Arthur Lamb came from a long-established New England family , was interested in science at an early age (while still at school he built an X-ray machine with friends in 1895) and studied biology at Tufts College and chemistry at Harvard College from 1896 , and in 1904 at both Tufts College and PhD from Harvard . At Harvard, Theodore William Richards was his PhD supervisor and the dissertation was on The specific heat of aqueous salt solutions . He then spent a year with Wilhelm Ostwald and Robert Luther in Leipzig. He became an assistant professor at New York University and in 1912 at Harvard. During the First World War he worked in chemical warfare as head of research (most recently with the rank of lieutenant colonel), developing above all protective mechanisms. In 1921 he returned to Harvard University. In 1920 he became professor and in 1940 dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences . After the First World War he built a new chemical laboratory and was its director until 1946.

In 1949 he received the Priestley Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1924) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914). In 1933 he became president of the American Chemical Society and he was editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 1917 to 1949 . In 1943 he received the William H. Nichols Medal .

In 1923 he married Blanche Anne Driscoll and had two children with her.

Web links

• Frederick G. Keyes: Biographical Memoirs National Academy, pdf
• Biography at Harvard Square Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Arthur B. Lamb at academictree.org, accessed on February 25, 2018.