Samuel C. Lind
Samuel Colville Lind (born June 15, 1879 in McMinnville , Tennessee , † February 12, 1965 ) was an American chemist, known as the pioneer of radiochemistry in the United States.
His father had Swedish ancestors. He studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington (Virginia) and from 1902 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Arthur Amos Noyes , which led to a first publication. Since it was not possible to do a doctorate there at the time, he went to the University of Leipzig , where he studied with Wilhelm Ostwald . There he studied the hydrogen-bromine reaction with Max Bodenstein , and their joint work (Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie 1907) was influential in early research on chemical kinetics (an example of a chain reaction). With this work he received his doctorate cum laude in 1905 in Leipzig . He returned to the United States and became an instructor at the University of Michigan in 1905 . In 1910 he spent several months with Marie Curie in Paris and in 1911 with Stefan Meyer in Vienna, where he worked on ozone formation through alpha radiation. This started his occupation with radiochemistry. From 1913 to 1925 he was with the US Bureau of Mines in Denver and from 1917 in Golden, where he got access to larger amounts of radium and uranium as part of his work. 1925/26 he was at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory of the US Department of Agriculture in Washington DC 1926 to 1947 he was a professor at the University of Minnesota . After his retirement he worked for Union Carbide at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory .
He dealt with chemical kinetics, specifically with the reactions induced by ionizing radiation.
In 1947 he received the Remsen Award , in 1926 the William H. Nichols Medal , and in 1952 the Priestley Medal . In 1940 he was President of the American Chemical Society and in 1927 of the American Electrochemical Society. In 1930 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He has received multiple honorary doctorates (University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame, Washington and Lee University, University of Colorado).
Fonts
- Chemical Effects of alpha particles and electrons, New York 1921, 1928
- Radiation chemistry of gases, New York, 1961 (with Clarence J. Hochanadel, John A. Ghormley)
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| SURNAME | Lind, Samuel C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lind, Samuel Colville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | McMinnville (Tennessee) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1965 |