Clayton Wing Bedford
Clayton Wing Bedford (born June 13, 1885 in New Windsor (Illinois) , † June 19, 1933 in Akron , Ohio ), was an American chemist.
Bedford studied from 1904 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with the aim of becoming a chemical engineer. In 1910 he received his bachelor's degree, was a lecturer at the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland in 1911 and was from 1912 at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Akron.
Bedford found the vulcanization accelerator 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (Captax) at Goodyear in 1916 , which was produced from 1922. In 1921 he left Goodyear and founded his own company (Rubber Services Lab.). A year later he became head of research at Goodrich in Akron.
Fonts
- with Herbert A. Winkelmann: Systematic survey of rubber chemistry. The Chemical Catalog Company, New York 1923.
literature
- Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, 1989.
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| SURNAME | Bedford, Clayton Wing |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Windsor (Illinois) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1933 |
| Place of death | Akron (Ohio) |