Charles L. Parsons

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Charles Lathrop Parsons (born March 23, 1867 in New Marlboro , Massachusetts , † February 13, 1954 in Pocasset , Massachusetts) was an American chemist. He was a professor at the University of New Hampshire and a chemist and mineralogist at the Bureau of Mines.

Parsons graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1888. He taught at the University of New Hampshire until he was chief mineralogist at the Bureau of Mines in 1911. During the First World War he was sent to Europe in 1917 to study the production of nitrates (important for fertilizers and explosives), as there were no natural occurrences in the USA. Four factories were built on his recommendation, but they only started production after the end of the war. He was also responsible for selecting the chemists who were exempted from military service. In 1919 he left the Bureau of Mines.

He dealt with the analysis of minerals and ores, radioactive substances and is best known for his work on beryllium .

In 1932 he received the Priestley Medal .

The Charles Lathrop Parsons Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) is named after him. It is awarded to members of the ACS for public service to chemistry.

From 1907 Parsons was half-time secretary of the ACS, which he remained until 1946.

Fonts

  • with Alfred Josef Moses: Mineralogy, crystallography and blow-pipe analysis from a practical standpoint, 1895, Van Nostrand 1920
  • Notes on mineral wastes, Washington DC 1912
  • Berylium, its chemistry and literature, Easton: The Chemical Publishing Company 1909, Archives

literature

  • Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 28 (1954-1955). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 2071.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin F. Shearer (ed.), Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime, Volume 3, Greenwood Press 2007, p. 659
personal data
SURNAME Parsons, Charles L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parsons, Charles Lathrop (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH New Marlboro , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1954
Place of death Pocasset , Massachusetts