Edward Curtis Franklin

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Edward Curtis Franklin (March 1, 1862 in Geary County , Kansas , † February 13, 1937 ) was an American chemist.

Franklin studied from 1884 at Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1888 and at the University of Berlin with August Wilhelm von Hofmann from 1890 to 1891, while he was from 1888 to 1893 assistant at Kansas State. He then went to Johns Hopkins University , where he worked with Ira Remsen in 1894 with the work On the action of ortho-and meta-diazo-ben-zene-sulphonic acids on methyl and ethyl alcohol. With some observations on the action of nitric acid certain alkoxy-benzene-sulphon-amides, he was an associate professor at Kansas State, except for a year as a chemist and mine manager at a mining company in Costa Rica. In 1903 he became a professor at Stanford University . He also headed the Washington State Department of Public Health from 1911 to 1913.

Franklin was known at Stanford for sophisticated lecture experiments based on the model of his teacher Hofmann. He mainly dealt with nitrogen chemistry ( ammonia and its compounds).

He received the William H. Nichols Medal and in 1932 the Willard Gibbs Medal , was President of the American Chemical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1921) and the American Philosophical Society (1912). He was the guest of honor of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at their meetings in Johannesburg and Melbourne.

He was a passionate mountaineer and went on many expeditions to remote areas.

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  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Edward Curtis Franklin at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018.
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SURNAME Franklin, Edward Curtis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Geary County , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1937