Bernard Weinstock

Bernard Weinstock (born December 7, 1917 in New York City , † September 12, 1981 in Royal Oak , Michigan ) was an American chemist.

Weinstock attended Brooklyn College (bachelor's degree in 1938) and was a student of Harold Urey at Columbia University . During World War II he worked under Urey in the Manhattan Project (first at Columbia University, later in Los Alamos), where he became a leading expert on fluorochemistry, specifically in the form of uranium hexafluoride in uranium enrichment and processing for nuclear engineering found. From 1947 he was at the Argonne National Laboratory before moving to the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan in 1961, where he stayed for 21 years and did pioneering work on the formation of smog. He headed the chemistry department of research there. Most recently he lived in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

In 1969 he discovered the relatively short lifespan of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, which indicated a faster conversion to carbon dioxide than processes previously considered. Hiram Levy then found in 1971 that this was possible with OH radicals from the photodissociation of ozone in the troposphere.

In 1958 he was a delegate at the conferences on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy in Geneva. He was on the editorial board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry . In 1957 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

• Editors: Photochemical Smog and Ozone Reactions, Advances in Chemistry 113, American Chemical Society 1973.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, September 14, 1981, Alan Debus World Who's Who in Science 1968 and short biography in Record of Chemical Progress 1962.
2. ^ Weinstock, Carbon Monoxide: Residence time in the atmosphere , Science, Volume 166, 1969, 224.