John Albert Newton Friend

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John Albert Newton Friend (born July 20, 1881 in Newton Abbot , Devonshire , † April 15, 1966 in Birmingham ) was a British chemist.

Life

Friend was the son of a Methodist missionary and the family moved to England every three years. He attended school in Birmingham and studied physics and chemistry from 1899 at University College London and then at Mason Science College in Birmingham (which was just then (1900) University of Birmingham) with John Henry Poynting (physics) and Percy Faraday, among others Frankland (chemistry). In 1902 he received his bachelor's degree and in 1903 his master's degree and was then a teacher of physics and chemistry in Watford . In addition, he researched metal corrosion. In 1913 he received the Carnegie Gold Medal for his investigations into the corrosion of steel: he witnessed that the resistance to neutral corrosive substances increases with the chromium content. With the money he saved (he lived frugally and took on additional work as a private teacher), he was able to finance studies in Germany in 1906 and received his doctorate in chemistry under Wilhelm Manchot at the University of Würzburg in 1908 with a dissertation on the carbonyl derivatives of copper salts. After returning in 1908 he became a lecturer in chemistry at Darlington Technical School (where he also gave courses on colors) and from 1912 he was director of the Victoria Science and Technology Schools in Worcester , where he returned after a break in the First World War. In 1920 he became head of the chemistry department at Birmingham College of Advanced Technology, later the University of Aston in Birmingham. During World War II he was in the homeland security department and taught protection against gas attacks. In 1946 he retired in Birmingham and then taught as part of an adult education program in the British armed forces overseas (until 1950) and in England until 1958.

During World War I he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps (in a group that was later incorporated into the Royal Engineers), where he dealt with protection against gas attacks. He also developed protective coatings for ships against seawater corrosion.

As a chemist, he dealt with a wide range of topics, both in basic research and in applications. He published many books, both monographs (on paint, corrosion, combustion chemistry, linseed oil ), textbooks and popular science books.

Awards

In 1910 he received a D. Sc. from Birmingham University and in 1915 became a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry. In 1919 he became an honorary member of the Oil and Color Chemists' Association and was its honorary president from 1922 to 1924. In 1924 he became an honorary member of the British Association of Chemists and in 1958 an honorary member for life of the Birmingham University Chemical Society.

Fonts

  • The Theory of Valency, 1909
  • An Introduction to the Chemistry of Paints, London, 1910
  • Elementary Domestic Chemistry, London, 1911
  • The Corrosion of Iron and Steel, London, 1911
  • Editor: Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry, 22 volumes, London, 1914–1930
  • The Chemistry of Linseed Oil, London, 1917
  • The Chemistry of Combustion, London, 1922
  • Iron in Antiquity, London, 1926
  • A Textbook of Physical Chemistry, 2 volumes, London, 1932–1935, reprinted 1948
  • Man and the Chemical Elements, London, 1951
  • Numbers: Fun and Facts, New York, 1954
  • Science Data, London, 1960
  • More Numbers; Fun and Facts, New York, 1961
  • Demonology, Sympathetic Magic and Witchcraft, London, 1961
  • Still More Numbers: Fun and Facts, New York, 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Friend, John Albert Newton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Newton Abbot
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1966
Place of death Birmingham