James Flack Norris

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James Flack Norris (born January 20, 1871 in Baltimore , Maryland , † August 4, 1940 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American chemist and President of the American Chemical Society .

Life

Norris studied chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, graduated in 1892 and then stayed there - especially influenced by the work of Ira Remsen at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1895 he received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) with a thesis on complex compounds of selenium and tellurium . In 1895 he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in 1904 went to Simmons College in Boston , founded in 1899 , where he became a professor in 1904. He stayed there until 1915, only interrupted by a sabbatical year with Fritz Haber in Karlsruhe. After a year-long stay at Vanderbilt University from 1915 to 1916 , he returned to MIT and stayed there until his death in 1940. At MIT he was a professor of organic chemistry and from 1926 head of a research laboratory. During World War I he served in the Chemical Warfare Service .

Norris was one of the first chemists to study the structure-reactivity relationship of organic compounds on a systematic basis. In 1925 and 1926 he was President of the American Chemical Society (ACS). From 1925 to 1928 he was Vice President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry . In 1907 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1934 a member of the National Academy of Sciences . Among other things, he was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Chemistry . In 1937 he received the gold medal from the American Institute of Chemists .

Honors

The ACS has presented the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Physical Organic Chemistry since 1965 and the Northeastern Section of the ACS has presented the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry since 1951 .

Fonts (selection)

  • James Flack Norris: The Principles of Organic Chemistry . 3. Edition. McGraw-Hill, London 1931, p. xii + 595 .
  • James F. Norris: Experimental Organic Chemistry . 3. Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, London 1933, pp. 233 .

literature

  • John D. Roberts: James Flack Norris . Ed .: National Academy of Sciences (=  Biographical Memoirs . Volume 45 ). National Academies Press, Washington DC 1974, ISBN 0-309-02239-8 , pp. 421-426 .

Web links

  • Brief biography with the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter N. (PDF; 283 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ James Flack Norris Award: Recipients. Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, accessed October 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Norris, James Flack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1940
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts