Earle R. Caley

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Earle Radcliffe Caley (born May 14, 1900 in Cleveland , † February 1984 ibid) was an American chemist and chemical historian.

Caley studied chemistry at the Case Institute of Technology and Baldwin Wallace College with a bachelor's degree in 1923, received his master's degree from Ohio State University in 1925 , where he studied analytical chemistry with Charles W. Foulk in 1928 with the subject Direct determination of sodium doctorate was. He then went to Princeton University , where he became interested in archeology. In 1937 he was involved as a chemist in the excavation in the Agora in Athens. During World War II he was an industrial chemist at Wallace Laboratories in New Brunswick (New Jersey) . In 1946 he became an associate professor and soon afterwards a professor at Ohio State University. In 1970 he retired.

In addition to research in analytical chemistry ( alkali and alkaline earth metals , use of hydrogen iodide in the analysis of poorly soluble compounds), he applied his knowledge to the analysis of ancient coins, statues, glass and pigments from the Mediterranean and other parts of the world.

In 1966 he received the Dexter Award and he received the John Frederick Lewis Prize from the American Philosophical Society. In 1967 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Baldwin Wallace College.

Fonts

  • Analytical Factors and Their Logarithms, 1932
  • The Composition of Ancient Greek Bronze Coins, 1939
  • with John Fitzgerald Clayton Richards (editor and translator): Theophrastus on stones: Introduction, Greek text, English translation and commentary. Columbus (Ohio) 1956
  • Orichalcum and Related Ancient Alloys: Origin, Composition and Manufacture With Special Reference to the Coinage Of The Roman Empirem, 1964
  • Analysis of Ancient Metals, Pergamon Press, Macmillan 1964
  • Metrological Tables 1965
  • History of the Department of Chemistry of the Ohio State University, 1970
  • with Johanna Schwind Belkin: Eucharius Rösslin the Younger, On minerals and mineral products. Chapters on minerals from his 'Kreutterbuoch': Critical text, English translation and commentary. Edited by Johanna S. Belkin and Earle R. Caley, Berlin and New York 1978 (= Ars medica. Texts and investigations on the sources of ancient medicine. IV: National language and medieval medicine. Volume 1).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Earle Radcliffe Caley at academictree.org, accessed on 23 January 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Caley, Earle R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caley, Earle Radcliffe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland
DATE OF DEATH February 1984
Place of death Cleveland