Claude Hudson

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Claude Silbert Hudson (born January 26, 1881 in Atlanta , Georgia , † December 27, 1952 in Los Angeles ) was an American chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Hudson grew up in Mobile, Alabama . He wanted to be a Presbyterian clergyman and studied at Princeton University , where he then turned to the natural sciences and especially chemistry. He received his bachelor's degree in 1901 and his master's degree in 1902, continued his studies in Europe with Walther Nernst in Göttingen and with Gustav Tammann and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in Berlin, and after returning to MIT , he was an instructor in 1904/5 in Princeton and 1906/7 at the University of Illinois . In 1907 he received his PhD from Princeton magna cum laude . He then went to Washington DC, where he worked as a food chemist and from 1923 at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC . From 1928 to 1951 he worked as a professor of chemistry at the later National Institutes of Health in Washington (then the state hygiene laboratory).

In 1911/12 he taught physical chemistry at Princeton.

Since his student days he has dealt with the optical rotation of lactose and the chemistry of hydrocarbons (such as various sugars).

In 1929 he received the Willard Gibbs Medal , the William H. Nichols Medal , the Richards Medal, the Hillebrand Prize, the Borden Medal and in 1942 the Elliott Cresson Medal . In 1927 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1932 of the Leopoldina . In 1949 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Society in London. He was an honorary doctorate from Princeton University.

The Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry has been presented by the American Chemical Society since 1946 , and Hudson was the first recipient. He was Associate Editor of Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry. His Collected Papers appeared in two volumes in 1946 and 1948 by Academic Press.

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  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Claude Silbert Hudson at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ On the multirotation of milk sugar, Z. Phys. Chemie, 44, 1903, 487-494
personal data
SURNAME Hudson, Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hudson, Claude Silbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Chemist (Organic Chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1952
Place of death los Angeles