Donald Hornig

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Donald Frederick Hornig (born March 17, 1920 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † January 21, 2013 in Providence , Rhode Island ) was an American chemist . He was a professor at Princeton University and President of Brown University and a presidential advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson .

Life

Hornig studied chemistry at Harvard University , where he in 1940 his Bachelor acquired Accounts and 1943 Edgar Bright Wilson to work on explosion in Air An Investigation of the Shockwave Produced by doctorate was. During World War II he worked in the underwater explosion laboratory in Woods Hole and then in the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. He was group leader and worked on the ignitions for the plutonium bomb and set them up in the Trinity explosion of the first atomic bomb. In 1946 he became an assistant professor at Brown University and in 1951 a professor. From 1957 he was a professor at Princeton University , where he also temporarily headed the chemistry faculty.

In 1969 he went to the Eastman Kodak Company as a manager and in 1970 he succeeded Ray Heffner as President of Brown University, which he remained until 1976. He was then professor of chemistry in public health at Harvard University (School of Public Health) and was 1987 to 1990 chairman of the environmental health department (Environmental Health). In 1990 he retired.

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He dealt with detonation and shock waves, molecular spectroscopy, spectra of crystals, fast reactions, theoretical chemistry.

Honors and memberships

In 1957 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences , and he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . He has received multiple honorary doctorates, Guggenheim and Fulbright scholarships. Hornig was appointed to the President's Scientific Advisory Committee under John F. Kennedy and served there from January 1964 under his successor Lyndon B. Johnson, with whom he did not get along well. In 1967 he received the Charles Lathrop Parsons Prize from the American Chemical Society .

Private

In 1943 he married the scientist and feminist Lilli Hornig (née Schwenk, * 1921), whom he met in Los Alamos and with whom he had three daughters and a son.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Donald F. Hornig at academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th
  3. ^ Member History: Donald F. Hornig. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 3, 2018 (English, with a short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Hornig, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornig, Donald Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2013
Place of death Providence , Rhode Island , United States