Elwin Elmer Harris

Elwin Elmer Harris (also Elwin E. Harris , born November 11, 1897 in Wauzeka , Crawford County , Wisconsin , † June 8, 2000 in Sun City , Maricopa County , Arizona ) was an American chemist .

Life

Family and education

Born in Village Wauzeka in the US state , Elwin Elmer Harris, son of William Harris and Mary Lena Harris, graduated from grammar school and then from high school in Mabel in the US state of Minnesota . He then devoted himself to studying chemistry at Hamline University in Saint Paul , and in 1921 he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree . After taking summer courses at the University of Chicago as a result , he continued his studies at the University of Minnesota , receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1922 and a Ph. D. in 1925 .

Elwin Elmer Harris married Esther Lynnette Cherry on June 20, 1923. The marriage had two daughters and one son. Harris died in June 2000 at the old age of 102.

Professional background

Elwin Elmer Harris got a job as an instructor in chemistry at the University of Minnesota in 1923. After completing his doctorate, Elwin Elmer Harris accepted a call as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks . In 1930 Harris moved to Madison as an assistant chemist for the Derived Products Section, a department in the US Forest Products Laboratory . Elwin Elmer Harris was promoted to chemist in 1936, senior chemist in 1942, and special chemist in 1946. Harris also held a position as a lecturer in Forest Products at the nearby University of Wisconsin-Madison . Elwin Elmer Harris stood out in particular through research contributions in the field of wood chemistry.

Publications

• together with George Bell Frankforter: Chloral and Bromal with Phenolic Ethers in the Presence of Anhydrous Aluminum Chloride. Ph. D. University of Minnesota 1925, Easton, Pa., 1926
• Saccharification of Wood: Problems Related to the Construction of a Plant to Produce Alcohol from Wood Waste. in: Report / US Forest Products Laboratory, R 1475. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. 1945
• Production of Alcohol from Australian Woods. in: Journal of the council for Scientific & Industrial Research, volume 19, 1946. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Melbourne, Vic., 1946
• together with Edward Beglinger: The Madison Wood-sugar Process. in: Report / US Forest Products Laboratory, R 1617. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. 1946
• Wood Molasses for Stock Feed. in: Report / US Forest Products Laboratory, R 1731. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. 1948
• Food-yeast Production from Wood-Processing Byproducts. in: Report / US Forest Products Laboratory, R 1754. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. 1949
• together with Alfred Joaquim Stamm: Chemical Processing of Wood. Chemical Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1953

literature

• Eugene Franz Roeber, Howard Coon Parmelee: Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering. Volume 37. McGraw Hill Company, New York, 1930, p. 780.
• University of Wisconsin: Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin. Science series. The University, Madison, Wis., 1949, pp. 14, 15.
• Williams Haynes : Chemical who's who. Biography in dictionary form of the leaders in chemical industry, research, and education. 3rd ed., Lewis Historical Publ., New York, 1951, p. 309.
• Joseph Patrick Blickensderfer: The United States Quarterly Book Review. Volume 9. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1953, p. 376.
• Paper Industry Management Association: Paper Industry. Volume 37. Paper Industry Management Association, Des Plaines, Ill., 1955, p. 665.
• Jaques Cattell Press: American Men of Science: Physical and biological sciences. Volume 2. RR Bowker Co., New York, 1960, p. 1649.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elwin Elmer Harris , US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed July 31, 2016