Robert J. Good

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Robert J. Good ( August 13, 1920 - April 29, 2010 ) was an American chemist who worked in the field of colloid and surface chemistry .

Life

Robert J. Good attended school in Lincoln , Nebraska, and then studied chemistry at Amherst College , Massachusetts and the University of California at Berkeley , graduating with a Master of Science degree in 1943 . In Berkeley he worked with Kenneth S. Pitzer on thermodynamic problems. From 1943 to 1944 he was employed by Dow Chemical in Pittsburg , California, and then worked at American Cyanamid in Azusa in the chemical warfare agent development department. After the end of the Second World War he went to the University of Michigan and worked there first on colloid chemistry and then on surface chemistry with Lawrence O. Brockway. In 1950 he received the Ph.D. As a postdoctoral fellow, he moved to a research department at Monsanto in Anniston , Alabama , where he did research on liquid dielectrics . In 1953 he became an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati , where he held lectures on surface chemistry and statistical mechanics. In Cincinnati, he worked on various industrial and military sponsored projects on theoretical surface chemistry. He supplemented his theoretical work with the measurement results obtained from experiments. He was temporarily involved in sub-projects at General Dynamics for the development of the Atlas rocket . From 1964 until his retirement in 1991 he was Professor of Chemical Engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo . In Buffalo, he continued to work on various questions of surface and colloid chemistry, especially adhesion and corrosion, and contributed significantly to a deeper understanding of various phenomena.

Good was interested in questions of the philosophy of science and published on them.

In 1976 he received the Award in Colloid Chemistry ( Kendall Award ) from the American Chemical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • LA Girifalco, RJ Good: A theory for the estimation of surface and interfacial energies. I. Derivation and application to interfacial tension . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry . tape 61 , no. 7 , 1957, pp. 904-909 , doi : 10.1021 / j150553a013 .
  • Robert J. Good, Louis A. Girifalco, Gerard Kraus: A theory for estimation of interfacial energies. II. Application to surface thermodynamics of teflon and graphite . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry . tape 62 , no. 11 , 1958, pp. 1418-1421 , doi : 10.1021 / j150569a016 .
  • Robert J. Good, LA Girifalco: A theory for estimation of surface and interfacial energies. III. Estimation of surface energies of solids from contact angle data . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry . tape 64 , no. 5 , 1960, pp. 561-565 , doi : 10.1021 / j100834a012 .
  • Carel J. Van Oss, Manoj K. Chaudhury, Robert J. Good: Interfacial Lifshitz-van der Waals and polar interactions in macroscopic systems . In: Chemical Reviews . tape 88 , no. 6 , 1988, pp. 927-941 , doi : 10.1021 / cr00088a006 .
  • Robert J. Good: Contact angle, wetting, and adhesion: a critical review . In: Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology . tape 6 , no. 12 , 1992, pp. 1269-1302 , doi : 10.1163 / 156856192X00629 .

literature

  • Robert E. Baier: In Memoriam: An Appreciation of Bob Good . In: Journal of Adhesion . tape 86 , no. 5-6 , 2010, pp. 465-466 , doi : 10.1080 / 00218464.2010.496640 .
  • Carel J. Van Oss: Robert J. Good, innovator in colloid and surface chemistry . In: Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology . tape 6 , no. 4 , 1992, pp. 401-412 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert J. Good: Why are chemists "turned off" by philosophy of science? In: Foundations of Chemistry . tape 1 , no. 2 , 1999, p. 185-215 , doi : 10.1023 / A: 1009934808874 .
personal data
SURNAME Good, Robert J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1920
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2010