Francis C. Phillips
Francis Clifford Phillips (born April 2, 1850 in Pennsylvania , † February 16, 1920 in Ben Avon , Pennsylvania) was an American chemist.
He went to school in Philadelphia (Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church) and studied from 1866 at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree (AB). From 1871 to 1873 he continued his studies in Wiesbaden with Carl Remigius Fresenius and was his private assistant and was at the Polytechnic Aachen with Hans Heinrich Landolt when he had to return because of his father's illness without the intended degree. He was first an instructor at Delaware College and taught from 1875 at the University of Pittsburgh and then at the Western University of Pennsylvania , where he taught for forty years until his retirement in 1915 and headed the chemistry faculty. In addition to chemistry, he also taught geology and mineralogy and in 1878/79 he also taught at the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy. In 1879 he received a master's degree (MA) from the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded his doctorate (Ph.D.) at this 1893. After his retirement in 1915, he conducted research in a laboratory at the Mellon Institute.
Long before the chemical application in the petrochemical industry, he investigated the catalysis of the oxidation of hydrocarbons with catalysts such as finely divided palladium, iridium, platinum, rhodium and osmium on an asbestos substrate as part of the chemical investigation of the naturally occurring petroleum and natural gas in Pennsylvania.
In 1919 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1881 he married Sarah Ormsby Phillips (daughter of the Mayor of Allegheny County ).
literature
- Obituary by Alexander Silverman in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1920, pp. 399-400, doi : 10.1021 / ie50124a032
Individual evidence
- ^ Donald McDonald, Leslie B. Hunt, A history of platinum and its allied metals, London: Johnson Matthey, 1982, p. 396
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| SURNAME | Phillips, Francis C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phillips, Francis Clifford (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1920 |
| Place of death | Ben Avon , Pennsylvania |