Milton Harris
Milton Harris (born March 21, 1906 in Los Angeles , † September 12, 1991 in New York City ) was an American chemist.
Harris grew up in Portland (Oregon) and studied at the Oregon Agricultural College (later Oregon State University ) chemical engineering and then chemistry at Yale University where he from Treat Baldwin Johnson with the work in 1929 Study of the fibroin from silk in the isoelectric region doctorate has been. He was then a chemist at Cheney Brothers Mill and, from 1931, at the newly established textile research group of the National Bureau of Standards , of which he became director. During the Second World War he was significantly involved in the development of textile army equipment. After the war he founded Harris Research Laboratories, which advised Gilette , among others , who took over the laboratories in 1955 and made Harris Vice Director of Research at Gilette. In 1966 he retired and became a member of the American Chemical Society Council.
In 1970 he received the Perkin Medal and in 1980 the Priestley Medal . In 1982 he received the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Milton Harris at academictree.org, accessed on February 8 2018th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harris, Milton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1991 |
| Place of death | New York City |