Horace L. Wells

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Horace L. Wells (before 1914)

Horace Lemuel Wells (born October 5, 1855 in New Britain , Connecticut , † December 19, 1924 in New Haven , Connecticut) was an American chemist .

Life

Wells graduated from Yale University (Sheffield Scientific School) in 1877 with Oscar Dana Allen with the thesis Determination of Titanic Acid in Iron Ores Containing Phosphoric Acid with a Bachelor . He then worked as a research assistant at Yale, for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and for railroad and mining companies. From 1884 Wells was a member of the university's faculty, and in 1894 he was appointed professor of analytical chemistry and metallurgy . In 1923 he retired .

Wells dealt with inorganic chemistry and mineral analysis, especially with the salts of the halogens . He examined double salts and triple salts (including especially those of cesium ), nitrates , periodates and thiocyanates . He described sperrylite among numerous other minerals . For over 20 years Wells was one of the editors of the American Journal of Science and translated the instructions for qualitative chemical analysis of Carl Remigius Fresenius into English.

Wells was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1903 . In 1906 he was the author of the National Academy of Sciences obituary for Samuel Lewis Penfield , who, along with Joseph P. Iddings and William T. Sedgwick, was part of a group of Wells' college friends. In 1907 Wells received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania .

Wells' students included Bertram Boltwood , Harry Ward Foote, and Henry Wheeler . Wells had been married to Sarah Lord Griffin since 1896, with whom he had two daughters.

Fonts

  • Studies from the Chemical Laboratory of the Sheffield Scientific School (1901)
  • Chemical Calculation (1903)
  • Textbook of Chemical Arithmetic (1905)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Horace Lemuel Wells  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vera V. Mainz, Gregory S. Girolami: Wells, Horace Lemuel. In: Genealogy Database. University of Illinois , 1998, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Horace Wells. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed January 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wells, Horace L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wells, Horace Lemuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH New Britain , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1924
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut