Malvern Wells Iles

Malvern Wells Iles (born August 7, 1852 in Midway (Kentucky) , † January 9, 1937 in San Francisco ) was an American metallurgist .

Life

He graduated from Columbia University School of Mines in 1875 and became a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University , where he spent two years researching sulfuric acid and xylenes . He then became a chemist and assayer at Utica Mining & Milling Co and later a metallurgist at the Omaha and Grant smelting company founded by James Benton Grant , as well as operations manager and metallurgist at the Holden smelting company in Denver (Colorado). In 1876 he received his Ph. D. from Columbia for his improvements in the smelting of lead and silver. He has published nearly 50 papers in the American Journal of Science and The American Chemical Journal and has been a member of scientific societies in the United States and Europe.

The mineral ilesite is named after him. According to various sources, he is said to have died in 1900. Marcus Benjamin (1857-1932) asserted in 1927, however, that Iles lived in Oakland , California. A grave in the local Mountain View Cemetery gives the year of death 1937.

Publications (excerpt)

with Ira Remsen : About the oxidation of xylene sulfonic acids . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society , Vol. 11, 1. 1878, pp. 888-892, ISSN 0365-9496
with Ira Remsen: About a new method of formation of α-oxyisophthalic acid (α-phenol dicarboxylic acid) . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society , Vol. 11, 1. 1878, pp. 579-582, ISSN 0365-9496
with Constantin Fahlberg : To determine the sulfur . In: Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie , Vol. 17, 1. 1878, pp. 497-498, ISSN 1618-2650
with Constantin Fahlberg: Reply to B. Delachanal's and A. Mermet's priority claims . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society , Vol. 12, Issue 2, 1879, pp. 2303-2304
For the qualitative separation of copper, bismuth and cadmium . In: Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie , Vol. 18, 1. 1879, pp. 585-586, ISSN 1618-2650
with Hugo von Gilm (1831–1906): For the detection of boric acid by the color of the flame . In: Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie , Vol. 18, 1. 1879, pp. 269-270
with William Bettel († December 1, 1912 in Johannesburg): For breaking down silicates and slag . In: Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie , Vol. 20, 1. 1881, pp. 538-539, ISSN 1618-2650
Lead smelting: The construction, equipment, and operation of lead blast furnaces, and observations on the influence of metallic elements on slags and the scientific handling of smoke . 1904

literature

Marcus Benjamin: Malvern Wells Iles: a chemist . 1926
Who was who in American history-science and technology . P. 301

Individual evidence

↑ webmineral.com: Ilesite

↑ Mineralienatlas - Ilesite

↑ ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS FOR THE GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 49, 1927, pp. 255-256, doi : 10.1021 / ja01411a036 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Iles, Malvern Wells
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American metallurgist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Midway (Kentucky)
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1937
Place of death	San Francisco

[1] webmineral.com: Ilesite

[2] Mineralienatlas - Ilesite

[3] ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS FOR THE GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 49, 1927, pp. 255-256, doi : 10.1021 / ja01411a036 .