Francis Patrick Garvan
Francis Patrick Garvan (born June 13, 1875 in East Hartford , Connecticut , † November 7, 1937 ) was an American lawyer and long-time President of the Chemical Foundation . In 1929 he received the highest award of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Priestley Medal , which was otherwise only awarded to chemists. In 1935 he and his wife donated the Garvan Olin Medal for women chemists, which has been awarded by the ACS since 1937.
Life
Garvan graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1997, the Catholic University of America and the New York Law School with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1899. He was then a lawyer in New York City , 1900-1910 Assistant District Attorney and then Director of the New York Bureau of Investigation . From March 1919 he headed the New York branch of the goods expropriated by Germany and allies in the First World War ( Alien Property Custodian ) and was also United States Assistant Attorney General (also Deputy Attorney General ). In 1919 he was the founder of the Chemical Foundation on behalf of US President Woodrow Wilson , which, with the expropriated patents of the German chemical industry (especially dyes), which was overpowering before the First World War, promoted the domestic chemical industry and much else to promote chemistry in the USA did. For example, they supported the use of agricultural products for the chemical industry (especially alcohol) in the so-called Chemurgy movement, which found support from Henry Ford and other industrialists and was important as a source of raw materials (synthetic rubber) during World War II. In the Chemical Foundation he worked closely with the chemist Charles Herty , for example also on the establishment of the National Institutes of Health . He remained President of the Chemical Foundation until his death. From 1919 to 1923 he was dean of Fordham University School of Law .
He has received honorary degrees from Yale, the University of Notre Dame , Trinity College in Connecticut, and Fordham University . He was a trustee of the Catholic University of America. In 1932 he received the Mendel Medal. He was a member of the Democratic Party and a Catholic.
In 1910 he married Mabel Brady, with whom he had seven children. She was the sister of the New York businessman Nicholas Frederic Brady (1878-1930), who in turn married the sister of Garvan. The Garvan couple donated a large art collection to Yale University.
In 1929 he received the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal .
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| SURNAME | Garvan, Francis Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and long-time president of the "Chemical Foundation" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Hartford , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1937 |