George Hamilton Cady

George Hamilton Cady (born January 10, 1906 in Lawrence (Kansas) , † March 18, 1993 ) was an American chemist .

Life

Cady studied chemistry at the University of Kansas in Lawrence with a bachelor's degree in 1927 and a master's degree in 1928, was at the 1930 University of California, Berkeley in Joel Henry Hildebrand with the subject Some properties of fluorine and hydrofluoric acid doctorate and worked as Post graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He then went into industry, in 1934/35 to the United States Rubber Company and from 1935 to 1938 in a glass factory. In 1938 he became Assistant Professor, 1943 Associate Professor and 1947 Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle . In 1972 he retired.

He mainly dealt with fluorine compounds , some of which he was the first to synthesize, around 1965 also those of fluorine with noble gases.

Honors

In 1970 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

• Aspects of flourine chemistry. Papers by George H. Cady and others, Santa Monica, Intra-Science Research Foundation 1971

literature

• Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of George H. Cady at academictree.org, accessed on January 23, 2018.
2. ↑ A fluorine atom is also depicted on his tombstone in Eden Cemetery in Skagit County, Washington:
   
   • George Hamilton Cady in the database of Find a Grave (English)
3. ^ Member entry by George H. Cady at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 10, 2016.