Arthur Messinger Comey

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Arthur Messinger Comey (born November 10, 1861 in Boston , † April 6, 1933 in Cambridge ) was an American chemist and university professor .

Life

Comey studied chemistry from 1878 to 1882 at Harvard University , 1883 in Zurich and 1884/85 in Heidelberg, where he also received his doctorate . 1885 to 1887 he was at Harvard University instructor for chemistry and from 1889 at Tufts College in Boston professor of chemistry. From 1893 he was analytical-chemical advisor and from 1906 director of the Eastern Res. Laboratory of DuPont in Chester (Pennsylvania) . In 1920/21 he worked at the Chemical Department in Wilmington (Delaware) and then in Cambridge (Massachusetts) .

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1891), the American Chemical Society, and the Society of Chemical Industry . He was buried in Rock Hill Cemetery in Foxborough .

Publications

  • Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities , 1921
  • The action of fluoride of silicon on organic bases ; 1887

literature

  • Chas. L. Reese: Arthur Messinger Comey . In: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry . 1928, Vol. 20, No. 4, p. 438 doi: 10.1021 / ie50220a039

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comey's Tomb at findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Comey, Arthur Messinger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1933
Place of death Cambridge